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— josé olivarez // natalie diaz

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i can change! / digital collage

all images sourced from wikipedia commons

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Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; "''Round Midnight,"

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“Her touch was as electric poison –”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, from The Collected Poems of P. S; “Epipsychidion,”

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I know the blessed touch abides with you —that what love cherishes does not decay; immortality oozes from those caresses— a promise, almost, of eternity.

Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Second Duino Elegy,” Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus

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“We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.”

— C. JoyBell C.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "To Boris Pasternak", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin)

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"People as things, that's where it starts."

Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23) - Terry Pratchett

Going Postal (Discworld #32) - Terry Pratchett

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My childhood trauma didn't make me stronger. it made me a people pleaser. it made me forgive way too much. it made me not speak when i'm supposed to. it made me an extreme empath.

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Dracula (1931)

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— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

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— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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