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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us. It’s a shame….because we’ve loved each other… But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro (via quotemadness)

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“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

— Milan Kundera

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“I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon.”

— The Avett Brothers, Tear Down the House (via hplyrikz)

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“I kissed a flame, what did I expect.”

— Rosanna Warren, from Departure: Poems; “From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“perfection is cold, bare, blank, and lifeless. imperfection, on the other hand, comes with kinks, dents, smudges, and cracks. it comes with things that give your life character.”

— Noor Shirazie

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i hope you meet people with intentions as pure as your own and i hope you travel to all the places you’re curious about and i hope the restaurants you go to have your favorite drink and i hope you always have good dreams when you sleep and i hope the life you live is a fulfilling one

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past, present, future― each tense contains you. it should not be this difficult to locate a time when my life was my own.

Noor Shirazie, into the wildfire: mourning departures (via noorshirazie)

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stop me if you’ve heard this one but men will search for women who are full of joy and confidence so they can leech off of it and then after they’ve left her empty and burned out and drained of all the life that once existed behind her eyes they’ll say she isn’t the woman they fell in love with

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orphan your god. undo your suicide. death is a mere echo. life has voice. speak.

Scherezade Siobhan, from “Bone Tongue” (via viperslang)

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To cease to exist and to die are two different things entirely. But you knew this, didn’t you?

Erika L. Sánchez, “Six Months after Contemplating Suicide,” published in Poetry  (via bostonpoetryslam)

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On the other side - Chapter 13

There was something about him that made me forget how cold the air was. I could feel his warmth radiating from his body, encompassing me as a shield form the cold. He was a source of warmth that nature had no control over. 'So how do you find inspiration?' I laughed at his question. 'Life, I guess. People, interactions, experiences. Most of all heartache. Sadness gives me the most to write about. I usually have a bottle of vodka and listen to music from the 50's with dim lights. Some poets give me inspiration'. He kept looking at me with his warm brown eyes; for the first time they stared back at me with something other than mischief. 'What was his name?' I wasn't aware that Rahul Sareen was capable of reading someone so quickly, but then again Rahul Sareen was full of surprises. I stared back at him with a smile on my lips, half joking I took his hand in mine and responded. 'Come now. It is far too early in the evening to speak of ghosts that haunt us, and I am far too sober to express what a wasteland my heart is.' - Anima S. On The Other side Chapter 13

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Matte R8

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Loss

You know, in life everything is replaceable I hear. Eventually, if you're lucky enough you out live your parents, siblings, and friends even. As sad as that thought is, you carry on. But then I think about parents who lose babies in infancy, or still born births. Mothers who are told that their child's heartbeat has stopped or they have miscarriages. what seems completely irreplaceable is the loss of a young child. How do you replace that? How do you go on with what will be the majority of your life?

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we were taught to say yes to everything  and no to ourselves

Nav K || denial (via navk)

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Don’t trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi (via nizariat)