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Rosamond Lehmann, from Dusty Answer

Text ID: “One thing more,” she said. “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in loving a person and saying so.”

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

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You must know I will always be exactly where you found me in the end.

In this imitative town of the same stomping ground or wherever you find you are.

We walk along the same streets but only moments before and after another, my dear.

Just the same, you will always find me here and there and everywhere I shall stay.

Come what may

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Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana c. January 1950 (translated by Velma García-Gorena)

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ok u caught me i’m stupid

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 Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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I do not know what so attracted me to him—those who say that certain souls recognize each other instantly and cling to one another inexplicably are right.

Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, tr. Jennifer Croft

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They ask, "You are only growing old, but when will you finally grow up?" They remark, "Act your age, you are so childish." They say, "You are not a little girl anymore."

I know! I drag that truth like dead weight behind me, I grieve that loss all the time, can't you see?

Everything around me a constant blur I can't breath, the minutes pass me by too fast. But nothing halts, nobody waits I inhale, and the present is already the past.

I tell myself I'll catch up with them, but remain unassured,  I scream into the void, When will I be "cured"?

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Taylor Byas, from I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems; “Painted Tongue”

[Text ID: “my mother and I becoming each other, / her bruises and scars passed down, / family heirlooms that will take / me decades to stop wearing,”]

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"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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Anne Sexton, from The Collected Poems; “Flight”

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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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.

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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming. But when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. And all that is best in us awakens.”

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Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband

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It is May— let all my sorrows fall as it may. There’s seeds in the ground but the flowers are astray. Must I keep going on this way?

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in the depths of love, we find ourselves drowning in the tears of our own suffering.