★ starlight academia

My Instagram ☆ “I’d collapse into light for you”

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Grief is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.

— Jamie Anderson, via starlightacademia

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Kazuo Ishiguro | from his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.

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Dante Émile | Loneliness, After Cameron Awkward-Rich

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— Trista Mateer, "Baggage", Honeybee (via starlightacademia)

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“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

— Tennessee Williams, from The Selected Letters: 1920-1945 (via starlightacademia)

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love?

— Franz Kafka, from Diaries 1910-1923

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— Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein

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— Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell

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— Chuck Akot, from Memoirs, Mort d'amour

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— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places

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— Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

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— Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

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— unknown

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— Frank Bidart, from "Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; 'Guilty of Dust'"

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― Virginia Woolf, Carlyle's House & Other Sketches

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— F.T.

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— raymond carver