I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of non-feeling, or stop questioning and criticising life and take the easy way out. To learn and think; to think and live; to live and...

dionysian-mystery:

You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life.

Megan Devine

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haleyincarnate:

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Inspired by @revelatori on Instagram ✨

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virginiewoolf:

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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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thoughtkick:

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

— Philip K. Dick

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cloudswamp:

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lineage, chris abani

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mournfulroses:

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Ada Limón, from “Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees,” published in June 2022

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drunkengodofslaughter:

life was elsewhere, and it was frightening and vast and mountainous and uncomfortable.

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thoughtkick:

“And there is nothing between us but rain. Then there is nothing between us at all.”

— Beth Revis, Across the Universe

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firstfullmoon:

When I injured my brain  it was barely spring.  Now it is mid-October  & getting up at eleven  is a big accomplishment.  Last month I counted the five hundred extra  hours I’ve spent sleeping  in this new state  where sunlight augurs  pain. I lose simple thoughts  before I can finish them  & feel lonely without  my mind. I’m always asking  whoever I’m talking to What was I saying?  When everyone went  back to school I stayed  home, stopped having  goals, stopped dreaming  of putting my body  in a body of water. I tried ALT
to edit what I wrote  and was bad at it, the kind  of bad trying harder  can’t fix. I felt useless  & alive. I watched  the doctor type prognosis  unknown & let hope  ghost me. Remind me where  the soul lives? How to tell  body from mind?  Ups & downs I say  when asked if I’m recovering.  In crowds I get dizzy  & sweat from the noise  & movement of bodies  around me. I am a woman  who holds her head  slightly off-centre,  always comes alone,  is relearning most things.  Where to begin?ALT

Kyla Jamieson, “In Exile I Draw the Tower Card,” in Body Count

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lluviagf:

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please don’t touch me, 2021 by Luka Khabelashvili

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