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everyday love

Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Joey Comeau & Emily Horne, A Softer World (#1113)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Our House

Ana Castillo, I Ask The Impossible

Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

@snoopysfriendwoodstock​, Normal People, Jane Austen, and the Romance of Walking Around

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

John Cooper Clarke, I Wanna Be Yours

Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

@icarusgf (x)

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Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

[weltenwellen]

“I can kill the desire, but I can’t kill the tenderness, the need to touch you when your eyes are dark, when you are pale.”

— Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947

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[moved-to-theundergroundwoman]

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love.

I confuse instinct for desire — isn’t bite also touch?

because you want to die for love, you always have

Georges Bataille, Guilty / The Lovers, Akseli Gallen / Richard Siken, Wishbone / Shakespeare, Pericles / scene from Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness (1973) / Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena / Safet Zec, 1943 | Allegories of Fate / Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V / Carmen. Ill. Alastair. / Emily Brontë, from, “Wuthering Heights,” / Carmen. Ill. Alastair. / Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem / Richard Siken

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“I am afraid of you. in loving me you hold a knife at my throat. in loving you I tell you exactly where to cut. we are two against the world yet I still do not trust your hand in mine, this is new and I am terrified.”

— vulnerability - a.j.

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[janasojka]

Night.

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soft reminder: one day you won’t carry heaviness on your shoulders. you’ll get through the day without constant worrying and stomach aches. you will heal and make your mind a safe, peaceful place to be, not something you want to escape. it’s all possible. you can make it through this.

[buggieboys]

Im convinced that making art, baking, listening to music/singing and dancing around your house are very naturally nourishing activities for your soul as well as human nature.

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have you ever been so attracted to someone that every little thing they do kills you because they’re so cute but it also kills you because you can’t be with them

[literally-a-piece-of-trash]

Ah yes, the 5 love languages:

touch starved

my parents never told me they are proud of me

i love Stuff

im so fucken tired please god just let me rest for 5 minutes

hey pay attention to me