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Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

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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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Mary Oliver, from Worm Moon in “Twelve Moons”

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Sylvia Plath

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— Mahmoud Darwish

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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

— Franz Kafka

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@mrgryphon - The thrill, the fear, the hope, oil on paper, 2021

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Movies and books also don't tell you that friendships don't just end after one fight or incident, it's like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

(read the whole thing here)

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Reginald Dwayne Betts “BALLAD OF THE GROUNDHOG”

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

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maybe that is why you're so obsessed with books, they let you be anyone and anything and escape the limitations of this body and this world.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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okay who was organizing an anti-PTI demonstration in the spn tag

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Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; “When rome falls”

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Admont Abbey Library, Austria 

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After the Ball - Conrad Kiesel

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Romeo and Juliet (1876) by Frank Dicksee.