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“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”

— Colum McCann

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Richard Misrach: Desert Cantos. San Gorgonio Pass, 1981

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“Start over my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want, and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to be loved.”

— Madalyn Beck

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"I lay there in the dark, remembering, remembering and remembering."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

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Vintage Penguin Modern Classics editions Albert Camus, Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka

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The limitations your disability places on you don't make you any less of a person. You're a worthy, valuable, lovable person who deserves love, support, respect, compassion and happiness regardless of how many accommodations you need. Your humanity isn't something you need to earn or prove.

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happy international mother language day to those who speak dialects, minority and indigenous languages, discriminated and endangered languages, “economically unprofitable”, “useless”, “unprestigious” languages and everyone who defends languages from colonialism and chauvinism

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Don’t be afraid to open a new door. It could take you even farther than you’ve ever imagined, but you’ll never know unless you turn that handle.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

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saint george monastary. jericho. #israelcollective #sociality | by tannerwendell | http://ift.tt/28UKLSg

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@thaliaho

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“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe  (via wordsnquotes)

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Yes you are.

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Alicia Lund

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“I didn’t know that the war was still inside you, that there was a war to begin with, that once it enters you it never leaves—but merely echoes”

— Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to My Mother that She Will Never Read ”

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so no one is going to talk about the time dostoyevsky said “and i seem to have such strength in me now, that i think i could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘i exist.’ in thousands of agonies- i exist. i’m tormented on the rack- but i exist! though i sit alone in a pillar- i exist! i see the sun, and if i don’t see the sun, i know it’s there. and there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.” because hOly fuckkkk