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you’ve become a brand new topic to discuss with hushed voices. glancing over shoulders, hiding behind closed doors. your name is like a curse to them. you must realize this is power.

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they jam salt into your wounds, calling you an animal for crying in pain. imagine what all that racket is doing to them. what about their feelings? you selfish bastard.

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Marie Howe, The Affliction

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I am glad that bee hummingbirds hatch nests of eggs each smaller than a pea. I am glad that there are oceans two miles deep where fishes unknown to science glow like fireflies.

I am glad that the crumbs taken from my bedroom are returned to tiny cities built by ants, and that the thunder of the storms rolling in from the north trembles in my chest when it is still a ways off. Hello, says the world, you are so little. Hello, says the world, you are so big.

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The Flies, Jean-Paul Sartre

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I just hope that no matter how many times this world tries to harden me and turn me into a cold person, I hope I remain soft. May I still be compassionate. May I still be full of love. May I still be soft and sees hope in everything. And to never become something that once broke me.

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The Flies, Jean-Paul Sartre

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nothing fits into the gap in your heart or the cracks in your memories. you never feel like you’re going to be complete again.

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{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}

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The first few times you stand up for yourself under no uncertain terms, you might do it with shaking hands and the taste of metallic on the back of your mouth as though you can feel your blood rising. Do it, anyway. Do it because you deserve to be treated well. Do it with a voice that cracks under the weight of your fear, do it with tears in your eyes, but do it, anyway.

You deserve to be treated well.

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a black cat is reflected in the cracked mirror, distorted by the grains of salt on the surface. you set a ladder up above it all, just for the hell of it. luck has already turned its back on you. now you’re just having fun.

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some days you envy sisyphus.

even in the face of meaninglessness, he pushes the boulder. it’s purpose.

that’s supposed to be a punishment? you would give anything to have life be so simple.

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anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

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ego of a god

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the mirror is broken and cracked. there’s a gaping hole where your face should be.

perhaps this is a better reflection than the original could ever create.

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jaws close on flesh and the only thing to do is tear it away. break it apart. foolish is the one who puts themself in the maw of the beast. they deserve what’s coming.