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im an empath so i can sense that hoes are mad

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Pink isn’t just a color. It’s an attitude.

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i hate when a poem is good. Fuck you for saying that for real

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thank god i'll never be 15 again

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— Clarice Lispector, from Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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how did you learn to write well?

well first you have to be a very sad child

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the older i get the more im like. brown and green are such good colors

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Eight and Half Candles   -  Valentin Popov , 2019.

Ukrainian, b. 1956  -

Oil on canvas , 26 x 28 in.

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growing up a girl letting people do things to you for years and years and years means your anger will turn biblical. anger that is incoherent unidentifiable inconsolable

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— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: A question: do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing that work (writing, learning German, French, studying)? It seems that way. I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book. Everyone else seems to be doing valuable work: social work, cancer research, teaching, degree getting, mothering. What can I do?]

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― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[text ID: My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. I want the world overturned like a bowl of eggs, smashed at my feet.]

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Let’s hear it for bagel & cream cheese

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Callista Buchen, “Taking Care”