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Emerged from the tentative ways, the obscurities and dazzle of youth, we look straight in front of us, ready for what may come. The door opens, the door keeps on opening. ,

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Jacob thinks about what it means to desire. Does it require participation, or can it surface more covertly, realized but dormant, carefully concealed?

Lindsey Drager, Archive of Alternate Endings

Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.

Caitlin Siehl, What We Buried

I felt connected to the smell of old books. The first time I smelled them, it was as if I’d encountered something I already knew.

Sohn Won-pyung, Almond

There is no straight path in art or life. Sometimes there is no path at all and one must break down walls and machete their way through the woods to get where they need to go.

Anne With an E S02E07

i’m meant to be spreading tenderness over the earth like seeds like worms. instead i've been shoveling coal into burning houses, fanning the ash.

Kaveh Akbar, Calling A Wolf A Wolf

Humans need marks to strive for—but imperfect systems decay.

Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose the Time War

art and love are the same thing: it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“If only you could talk to girls in equations.” There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the notch they’d created in the link, Wylan said, “Just girls?” Jesper restrained a grin. “No. Not just girls.” ,

Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

I wish my love was more beautiful.

Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

It frightened and thrilled Eli, to be seen, and to see himself reflected. Not all of himself—they were still so different—but there was something vital, a core of the same precious metal glinting through the rock.

V.E. Schwab, Vicious

and of course i’m afraid of him, of the way keeping him a secret will make him inevitable. i will do anything to avoid getting carried away.

Kaveh Akbar, Calling A Wolf A Wolf

How could his feeling for her ever be anything like his feeling for other people?

Sally Rooney, Normal People

and at every table, i'll save you a seat

Taylor Swift - Lover

DARCY: (with passion) I love you. Most ardently. Lizzie stares at him.

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Libby glanced at Tristan and felt it again; that little sway, the pulse of time stopping.

Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

It suddenly hurts, the force of how much I've missed her. Them. All of it. Surely that's allowed, for a little while—just to miss them?

Rosaria Munda, FIreborne

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