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I was searching for the meaning of life,  like trying to grasp infinity  with my own hands. Paralyzed by the fear of all that still doesn’t have a name. I thought I was burning up,  but now it’s clear that I’m the flame.

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— Margaret Atwood, from “Songs of the Transformed.”

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“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”

— J.K. Rowling

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“Trust is like paper. Once crumpled, it will never be perfect again.”

— Unknown

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Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife; “Thetis”

[Text ID: “I shrank myself / to the size of a bird in the hand / of a man. / Sweet, sweet, was the small song / that I sang, / till I felt the squeeze of his fist.”]

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Carol Ann Duffy, from The World’s Wife; “Thetis”

[Text ID: “my tongue was flame / and my kisses burned,”]

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Diane Seuss, from Four-Legged Girl: Poems; “I can’t listen to music, especially “Lush Life,””

[Text ID: “his love bites / hurt, and opened a red door to a deeper hurt,”]

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Gertrud Kolmar, tr. by Henry A. Smith, from Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems of Gertrud Kolmar; "Woman Undiscovered"

[Text ID: "I am a continent that one day soon will sink without a / sound into the sea."]

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Claire C. Holland, from I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems; “Ginger”

[Text ID: “I got cursed, in every way a / woman can. / You kill yourself, over and over, / to be different.”]

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“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.”

— Tom Hiddleston

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Beth Hart - Without Words In The Way

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#Spotify

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A hug the protects u from the fear eating you alive

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Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

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