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[dreams-of-a-booklover]

I wanted to know

You breathed and moved

In the same world as me

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benediction

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I am out with lanterns

Looking for myself.

— Emily Dickinson

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[dreams-of-a-booklover]

Of course I want to be successful

but I don’t crave success for me

I need to be successful to gain

enough milk and honey

to help those around

me succeed

— Rupi Kaur

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[dreams-of-a-booklover]

What if I told you, the word ‘pretty’ is a skin deep, six letter prison they put you in.

They say, “If you lost some weight, you’d be so pretty.”

They say, “If your skin was clearer, you’d be so pretty.”

But what they really mean is, “ If you looked like our mass-produced ideal, you’d be so pretty.

Let me tell you a secret they do not want you to know, nothing about you is pretty nor will it ever be so. 

You see, pretty is too small and simple a word to capture the exquisitely complex human phenomenon you are,

every atom of you was plucked in the quiet cosmic moments between supernovas and stars,

A carefully chosen palette of your skin, your eyes, your muscles and bones from sunsets and skies.

When they tell you how pretty you could be if only- Cut them off and say ‘pretty’ is nor your worth or value nor something you have ever aspired to be.

Nikita Gill

Pretty Is A Lie

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[dreams-of-a-booklover]

what terrifies

me most is

how we foam

at the mouth

when others

succeed

but

sigh in relief

when they

are failing

our struggle

to celebrate

each other

is what’s proven

most difficult in

being human

— Rupi Kaur

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