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avec amour

[quotespile]

“Books meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

[bbyyygirl]

the tarot cards said you belong in me

[longstoryshort-143]

the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[bebemoon]

a silvery rill in mid August

[mournfulroses]

Gail Honeyman, from her book titled "Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine," originally published in 2017

[cockyfunny]

[askistiyorumyadaolum]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Bertrand Russell, from “What Desires Are Politically Important?” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[sacredwhores]

Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)

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[mournfulroses]

 Kasa no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Look at my keepsake and think of me," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[srcee]

oh to be held by arms that know every part of me

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[apttalbalik]

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[weltenwellen]

Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems

[petaltexturedskies]

Louise Glück, from "A Warm Day" in featured in her 2009 collection A Village Life