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I’ve forgotten how to trust

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“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

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“You need someone that loves your soul more than your body”

— Unknown

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May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems

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Jeanette Winterson, from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

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“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”

— Marc Jacobs

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‘From a swamp, evil, viscous,’ Osip Mandelstam (translated by A. S. Kline)

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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I hope they ask about me & I hope you tell them you fucked up.

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Open ❤️

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.

Rodger Kamenetz, from Terra Infirma (University of Arkansas Press, 1985)

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- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

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- A.R Asher

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"Listen," she told me as she began sweeping the landing and the stairs, "no one goes very far when they know the joy of coming home again.

- Enrique Vila-Matas