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so much of taking care of yourself as an adult is just learning to eat at home and going on walks

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“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having you wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”

— Emery Allen

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Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”

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There is melancholy in this line:

"agar main yai kahon tum se, ke tum bin adhoora hoon, tou kya takmeel mumkin hai?"

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- Do you know what the most terrible need in the world is?

- What?

- 'I hope he loves me just as much as I love him.'.

Among the infinite universe's needs, this one is the most terrible.

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Margaret Atwood, from True Stories: Poems; "Variations of the Word Sleep," originally published in 1981

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I hate having that feeling in my chest like I’m about to throw up my actual heart

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of course i want to love and be loved. i want the first date and late nights talking on the phone. to be swept off my feet and flowers every now and then. i want love letters and forehead kisses. my favorite chocolate with a sticky note saying "i love you". i want the random "i miss you" messages and the "i'll pick you up in 15 to watch the sunset". i want the love i so desperately want to give and never get the chance to. i want to wake up and make his coffee and favorite thing to eat in the morning. i want to remind him he's my everything every chance i get. i want to watch him play on his pc and get him to teach me. i want to stroke his hair and fill his face with kisses. i want to love him and call him mine. and maybe someday i'll open up again and let that love fill me in, but for now, i'll just love myself the way i want to be loved.

- dee

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He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

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Please tell me i'm not as forgettable as your silence is making me feel.

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Baat wafa ki hoti tou kabhi na haarte

بات وفاکی ہوتی تو کبھی نہ ہارتے

Baat naseeb ki thi kuch kar na sakhe

بات نصیب کی تھی کچھ کر نہ سکھے

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I think the fast paced society we live in currently has brainwashed me into thinking i can upgrade myself and my life just as fast as when i restart my computer or phone. I have forgotten the natural cycles of life… how the moon takes her time to be full or how the crops take their time to grow their fruits.