Trees of Reverie: These Books Were Once Trees

Jamie. they/them. queer, trans non-binary; neurodivergent, disabled, chronic illnesses. artist, writer, library enthusiast, gamer. Cats: Charlie & Lola. Previously a bookseller for 7yrs. Housebound & mostly bedbound with Severe ME.

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But even a dream would become real if you came back to it often enough.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

I so desperately wanted to ask him why was it that we were both in pain, yet there was nothing we could do to comfort one another?

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

To compare itself with a ghost meant that it had to abandon something important in its essence, like a raindrop that fell through the air knowing that it would lose its shape forever upon hitting the ground.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

She felt unworthy of kindness even as she needed it more and more.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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Words - too many of them - were flying into my head, but none pieced together into a sentence.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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Thought might wish it so, but the heart is not a magical armour that can withstand anything; it is real and beating and capable of being wounded.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

'If things were always either good or bad, then we would never feel anything.'

Ghost Music by An Yu

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Oftentimes it felt like things were going both nearer and further at once, as if the closer they were, the less I could believe that they ever existed.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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We remember it as being either filled with bliss or filled with pain, and as we grow up, we begin living every day in between.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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We pour a bit of ourselves into everything we do, every note we play, I thought, and unwittingly, one fragment at a time, we leave ourselves in the past.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

I wish I could've told her that we will feel constrained anywhere, but freedom can still be found in those same places.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

I suppose missing someone isn't so much the consequence of distance - it comes from the disruption of the senseless routines that have been formed in the mind.

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

What do you think the sound of being alive is?

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

'Human, ghost or god, what difference does it make if you can hardly remember what you were in the first place?'

Ghost Music by An Yu

[treesofreverie]

What bothered me more was that if time were to rewind, I would do the same thing again.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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She doesn't carry any ambitious dreams, but I haven't met anyone more content with their life than her.

Ghost Music by An Yu

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The mind is more brittle than many of us wish to believe.

Ghost Music by An Yu