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"That it will never come again"

by Emily Dickinson

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Believing what we don’t believe Does not exhilarate.

That if it be, it be at best An ablative estate -- This instigates an appetite Precisely opposite.

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"I presumed that there was an order to things."

Katarina Rostova | Reddington | Years Apart

The Blacklist 1x01 - Pilot / 3x19 - Cape May

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One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three beloved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

— Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.

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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

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What I look forward to in every episode 😌

         When you love someone, you have no control.                                                                               That’s what love is… being  p o w e r l e s s.

redtember ≡ day nineteen

↳ favorite relationship - red + lizzie

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Hahaha

As annoying as Liz can get (esp when she cluelessly accuses red of lying), her emotions are truly relatable.

I have four (4) moods

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And that’s what I always said!

Who *is* Red Reddington? Perhaps we find out in #TheBlacklist S6

Do not know who made this gif, sorry….

#TheBlacklist #JamesSpader #RedReddington

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Cape may will always be one of my favourite episodes in

“I couldn’t keep my promise. Can you forgive me?” “Yes. But will you forgive yourself?”

3x19 - 5x09

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🔥

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Winter and the Nuthatch

by Mary Oliver

Once or twice and maybe again, who knows, the timid nuthatch will come to me if I stand still, with something good to eat in my hand. The first time he did it he landed smack on his belly, as though the legs wouldn’t cooperate. The next time he was bolder. Then he became absolutely wild about those walnuts. But there was a morning I came late and, guess what, the nuthatch was flying into a stranger’s hand. To speak plainly, I felt betrayed. I wanted to say: Mister, that nuthatch and I have a relationship. It took hours of standing in the snow before he would drop from the tree and trust my fingers. But I didn’t say anything. Nobody owns the sky or the trees. Nobody owns the hearts of birds. Still, being human and partial therefore to my own successes— though not resentful of others fashioning theirs— I’ll come tomorrow, I believe, quite early.

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day by the bay; big sur, california

instagram / twitter

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hard pill to swallow: the idea that your ‘soulmate’ or ‘the one’ will know exactly how to make you happy without you ever having to communicate is fake. the fantasy that you will have all your needs met in a relationship without ever having to be vulnerable is fundamentally not true. sometimes you have to express your needs and desires, you have to ask for things, you have to communicate how you want to be loved, it’s uncomfortable and clumsy but relationships are about learning to love each other not being a mind reader

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winterfresh

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meadow whispers

instagram

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Day 1’s challenge - Hand (left)

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Han Jipyeong is absolutely beautiful

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That’s it. That’s the show.