"Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

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Maybe turning 20 isn't so scary.

Silvia Plath | thehappysnapshot on Instagram | _Imjustagirl.0 on Instagram | kiwi.sodas on Instagram | @hotknife | Fleetwood Mac | Leanna Firestone | Waifgirl on Instagram | coffesentiments_ on Instagram

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Neckdeep/bellzy1/Ricky Montgomery/unemployed_suckers on Instagram/McCarthy Trenching/Merle Haggard

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Perfumebathing on Instagram/Kaylabud on Instagram/Leanna Firestone/Boygenius/8.46 am on Instagram/drunk_hood on Instagram/Mitski

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"Loving you wasn't a mistake, you've made me into me"

Nightshade_pretty on Instagram/Noah Kahan/Madds Buckley/0.633pm on Instagram

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It's my birthday! I am a thousand miles away from anyone who has celebrated with me before.

Ladybird Gretta Gerwig/Olivia Rodrigo/ @mounaks/It's Imaterial/unknown/Taylor Swift/emilyyharrington on Instagram/ @castielsprostate /daniell koepke

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Here's to whatever's next

writtenbyjv on Instagram/ @fairycosmos /barbaricbrownbiblophile on Instagram/es.trig on Instagram/David Leviathan/Richard Siken/loveandfear on Twitter

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I just want you to see me, to see what you've done and be as sorry as you made me

Ladybird/Rose Brik/@parentless-suggestions/Leanna Firestone/Rose Brik/Ladybird/Bare: A Pop Opera/Rose Brik/Chen Chen/aquarius.the.poet on Instagram

[potatoweaves]

Coming to terms with your mother's humanity

@death-born-aphrodite/@bitterl/Supernatural/8.46am on Instagram/Hailey Noecker/Fatima Aamer Bilal/Winterhats, literally from AO3/Mitski

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Dog Metaphors have been on my mind lately

th1s.us3r.has.pass3d on Instagram/Phoebe Bridgers/Madds Buckley/th1s.us3r.has.pass3d/Silas Denver Melvin/Alex G/luvicle on Instagram/Mitski

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December

On to another year

Frank Mclure/Sarah Kay/Merle Haggard/Nelly Sachs/Fred Bergere/@poetryofmuses/luvicle on Instagram/Chandrama Deshmukh/Charles Burchfield

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To be known is to be loved

Boygenius/@infinityonhighvevo/Holly Warburton/minimal.almanac on Instagram/@capfalcon/Taryn Knight/Mathew Olzmann/@jackalopiel/George Orwell

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On losing a friend

Nickie Zimov/Madds Buckley/Trista Mateer/@letsbelonelytogetherr/fairy.bl00dred on Instagram/haleyincarnate on Instagram/@ermelina/@chloeinletters/Anne Sexton

[potatoweaves]

On growing up, being 18, and leaving it all behind.

Girls.fyyy on Instagram/@waitineedaname/starsparkdesigns on Instagram/@psychicdonuts/@hjarta/archivedsmiles on Instagram/@petrichara/@wvterways/@parakeet/sproutsofconciousness on Instagram

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I wish I was an easy child

Lucy Eaton/A Hopeless Dawn-Frank Brambly/Sharon Olds/Rupi Kaur/Geloyconcepcion/@maiabaia/Lady Bird/Safia Elhillo

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"Pain adores me. God ignores me"

Ethel Cain/Bare a Pop Opera/Sylvia Plath/Indian Summer - Ron Hicks/Madds Buckley

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On leaving things behind

Archivedsmile on Instagram/Taylor Swift/David Foster Wallace/Geloyconcepcion on Instagram/Fionna and Cake/Mitski

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I don't wanna lose you, part of me thinks I already have.

Fakelupe on Instagram/Regina Spektor/Geloyconcepcion/Stanzipotenza/jessczapalskipoetry on Instagram/Fakelupe on Instagram