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I'm amazed by how love it is, I was convinced for years that I was not meant for it, I was not ready to love someone the way I do now but, tables turns so quickly and out of nowhere he was there and I'm still processing the fact that he's still here after months, after getting to know me, after everything and now the last thing I want in the world is to lose him, I'm attached in some way that I cant even imagine. I'm just amazed.

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Why is the mind like this? It's the most powerful thing in our body and it is unbelievable how it gets to make that kind of damage

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“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”

— Unknown

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kaz brekker is so in love with inej that he can distinguish the different moods of her silence

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seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!

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Kaz: *says anything*

Matthias:

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Jesper: Kaz when was the last time you drank something that wasn’t coffee?

Kaz: I did a shot with you last night

Jesper: That’s not what I—

Wylan: When did you drink water.

Kaz: Water?

Wylan: I can’t do this with you today, I have shit to do.

Inej: Hey Kaz?

Kaz: Yes, darling?

Inej: Go drink some water.

Kaz: Okay.

Jesper and Wylan, shaking their heads: I just don’t understand how she does it.

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whys there no emoji of a guy dead on the pavement

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graphic by bum-lung on twitter

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dreary monday mornings call for poetry and tea

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more than 1,000 russians were arrested in protests in 44 cities over the last six hours. some well-known activists were preemptively arrested as they left their house; others were arrested as soon as they unfurled placards. by the looks of it, there were large protests in st. petersburg. over 100 local government officials signed a letter opposing war, and over 170 journalists and intellectual figures signed a similar letter. this is a promising sign, but it’s feeble. as war drags on, protests will grow.

russian civil society is battered and demoralized; its most prominent figures have either been murdered or jailed. i predict that russia will become “totalitarianized” in the coming weeks, with full control over the internet and social media. it isn’t clear how extensive this will be, or how quickly it will happen. already, moscow’s largest theater announced that anyone disrupting the performances to say anything about the war will be arrested for treason. this has severe ramifications for what the postwar occupation of ukraine will look like

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“Living dark academia is all fun and games until you have to actually study”

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i’d pay donna tartt to write the secret history from henry’s pov. take all my money.

#we all need this please

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George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, from The Collected Poems 1924-1955; “Helen”

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nothing is as tender as annotating your favourite books. it’s like leaving a piece of your heart on the pages for somebody else to find.