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kesha, praying
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut.
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
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Home doesn’t exist for girls like me.
Fox Brown, from “I Am Asked to Surrender My Things,” published in Winter Tangerine
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how many times have I
held two things in my hands
and thrown the wrong one away
Bethany Schultz Hurst, closing lines to “Seascape with Evacuating Animals,” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (vol. 29, no. 1, Winter/Spring 2017)
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My knees are scraped from all the times I have been knocked down by life. My knuckles are bruised from all the times I have fought my way back onto my feet.
raywritess (via wnq-writers)
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I’m in love with dead memories.
Six Word Story #11 (via 00cm)
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what hasnt killed me has just made me overly sensitive and defensive
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via giardinonymphe)
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Don’t tempt me.
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I am troubled and harsh and hopeless. Though I have love inside me. But I don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it scratches like barbs.
Clarice Lispector, tr. by Elizabeth Lowe, from Água Viva / The Stream of Life
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