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Lay your head just here– just where the tree once grew, in this half-moon carved by the nest of its roots. there is only earth here now, but I promise that sleep will bring the spring. Where the sunlight goes the green will follow, until your neck tickles with meadow grass and you wake to the wind-chime of bees. the world will grow soft around you, if only you let yourself rest.

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  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

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“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”

— Michael Faudet

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In another universe,

You loved me loudly and unapologetically.

In another universe,

We made it.

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“…and so far from any help, he heard it in himself—it rose from his bleeding, his cracked-open heart. It was a sound of rage and weeping which filled the grave, rage and weeping from time set free, but bound now in eternity; rage that had no language, weeping with no voice—”

— James Baldwin, from Go Tell It on the Mountain (via luthienne)

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“I feel lonely for the sound of your voice.”

— Anne Clarke

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“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Hush, my brave knight, and go to sleep. The grief is real, the sadness is real, and it's alright to feel the creeping edge of despair. Go to sleep, my brave knight. Let your heavy heart rest. We can mourn for the world and then move on to saving it. Kindness still remains, and there are soft fields yet full of yellow flowers that are still unmarred. Sleep soft, brave knight. Let your wounds ache as the flesh starts to knit itself back together. Sadness is real, but so is hope.

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“Whoever said heroism was fair? … It’s the unfairest thing of all. ‘Come away, oh human child, and learn to swing a sword for the sake of people who’ve decided the thing you’re best for is dying in their name.’ We were lambs for the slaughter, all of us, and if we survived this long, it’s not because we’re special. Come on. Let’s be heroes one more time.”

— Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

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via weheartit

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“Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”

— Lauren Oliver

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“I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.”

— Michael Faudet

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Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.

Kate Jacobs (via sunsetquotes)

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

— Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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