---- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
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"Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself."
-Franz Kafka, Diaries.
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When Anne Carson said "I feel so lonely, like childhood again." and when Ryan O'Connell said "I don't want to have to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It's mortifying. It's mortifying to be the one who remembers." and when Gregory Orr said "Childhood dotted with bodies. Let them go, let them be ghosts. 'No,' I said, 'make them stay, make them stone.'"
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yes i annotate my books & say really smart things [draws hearts and frowny faces when called for]
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.
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Layers of fear by andrzej dybowski
tw: blood/gore
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There’s something so oddly intimate in referring to secondhand books as ‘preloved’
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- the killing grounds
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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Woke up today wanting to play god but then my english professor went ahead and acknowledged my academic rival’s poetry analysis instead of mine.
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whatever souls are made of, yours and mine are the same (insult)
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Here’s a lil playlist for that ravishing feeling you get when you just outsmarted your classmate:
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“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
— Haruki Murakami
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If I was ever given a book of classic poetry with handwritten annotations I would simply die
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