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I think I've come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am.

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

I can't wait for the future, but i also don't want it to come, simply in anticipation of nostalgia

The girlblogger urge to romanticise everything

i don’t mind teaching you how to love me, as long as you’re willing to learn

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

Have you ever felt the urge to avoid reading emotionally depressing, vulnerable books, or a tragedy where everything just ends into chaos.

But unfortunately, that's the genre you fancy!

The desire to be loved is the last illusion, give it up & you’ll be free.

- Margaret Atwood

I don't think you understand just how much I romanticize rain.

Hello, people who dream of having a secret study group! Everyone agrees that a quill pen is NOT a useless purchase, right? I just fulfilled an old wish with this.

why must i be productive is it not enough to read my silly little fantasy romance books and disappear into the forest :(((

Books have set my expectations for life too high.

"The Undergrad Cohort"

I finished Babel in about 2 weeks and it's left a gaping hole in my heart I need to patch with fanart.

Uncleaned scanned sketch below.

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

all i want is to live inside this book forever

Parts of Me Never Left That House by Mada Hayyas

“you’re so hot” ok but am i unsettling? do i seem eerie to you? give you a bit of the heebie jeebies? when i walk into a room do you feel a chill down your spine?

sometimes i think that beauty is all that matters to you people smh

people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.

“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”

-Rodger kamenetz, from Terra infirma

people who give the best advice usually don't follow it themselves

I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didn’t know it was supposed to…I didn’t know it was supposed to be peace. And you know what? Even if I did know that, I don’t know that I would’ve been ready to welcome it or value it .

Daisy Jones & The Six

The academic urge to take up on several new skills because you’re desperate to feel as though you have value and secretly fear not leaving a mark when you’re gone

i deserve the world and i am going to give it to myself