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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)

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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

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Khalil Gibran

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How wild is it that every version of you probably exists still, somewhere, in someone’s memory? The messy you, crying on the floor exists still in your mind. The happy, sun-soaked you, exists in your best friend’s memory. No part of you has died, all parts of us exist always, simultaneously and hidden. 

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…tender like a bruise.

Marie Rutkoski, from The Winner's Kiss

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When Mary Shelly wrote "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other" god I really felt that

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“I will spend more time with myself in this lifetime than anyone else. Let me learn to be the kind of person I would like to have as a friend.”

— Courage to Change: One Day at a Time (Al-Anon.)

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Louise Glück, from "Marriage"; A Village Life (2009)

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how beautiful it is to find someone who has went through similar pain as you and you offer them the comfort you wished you had when you were in their position. its like gently taking off the armor, cleaning the blood wounds, keeping the sword to the side. and just being human. how tender it is to treat someone with love and kindness you wish you were treated with.

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Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

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"Do you understand? When I am done telling you these stories, when you're done listening to these stories, I am no longer I, and you are no longer you. In this afternoon we briefly merged into one. After this, you will always carry a bit of me, and I will always carry a bit of you, even if we both forget this conversation."

– Hao Jingfang, "Invisible Planets," in Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, tr. & ed. Ken Liu

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Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"

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Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails”

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If not during the time I spent living in agony then perhaps with death I shall find the love I waited for an eternity.

I hope that someday when I am gone, someone somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."

-Nicole Lyons

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The seats are empty. The theatre is dark. Why do you keep acting?

Charles Bukowski

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Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Seduction theory”

[Text ID: “so let it be known when I want something I want more of it than usually exists.”]