I Don't Want To Live Forever

19, Malaysia-Melbourne

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[ichimakesart]

You're conducting a dangerous research

Remember to bring sweets

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— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; "The Old Man and the Sea,"

[goodlouse]

don’t forget your pills! [rbs&follows>likes]

[oldwinesoul]

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”

—Oscar Wilde

[mothprincess]

[feral-ballad]

Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Jess”

[Text ID: “I can’t exist in a way that comforts you.”]

[metamorphesque]

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: And so it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.]

[metamorphesque]

― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

[text ID: The centre of every poem is this: / I have loved you. / I have had to deal with that.]

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

[heavyrain-dc]

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

— Mitch Albom

[altruisticwriter]

A happy ending:

“She agreed to love herself deeply.She was finally the sun of her own life.”

-Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction

[soracities]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[heavyrain-dc]

“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”

— Unknown

[lone-nyctophile]

- Beau Taplin

[coldbrewnette]

I blog for the girls who cry on their birthdays and lose a little bit of themselves during the summer months

[altruisticwriter]

-William Wordsworth