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“With my whole heart, I live as I live.”

— Mary Oliver, from Winter Hours

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i keep thinking about the magic of moments. how small details can stay with you for months, years even. i keep remembering partial memories without any clear connection between then and now. mashing strawberries and pouring sugar in my grandmother's kitchen, the late summer sunset at a farewell bonfire, the first lick of ice cream on a hot day, watching a movie at the drive-in from the backseat while we swatted mosquitoes. some aren't specific memories, but a culmination of similar memories all wrapped into one. sometimes i try and connect the dots, tie the here and now to the then and there, trying to find a reason why i'm distinctly remembering the taste of wild blueberry pie while I'm drinking iced tea. but maybe the connection isn't in the memory itself but the feeling behind the memory. the pure, unrivaled joy experienced when i was younger and again now, as i'm creating new moments and memories. maybe that's all magic really is, joy in its brightest and rawest form.

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“We grow. It hurts at first.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961

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st kilda apartment, fiona lynch architects

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pov: you're a character in john green's coming of age book

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I just want to mind my business and speak 6 languages

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Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “Haitham”

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i need someone to listen to cigarette daydreams w/ me and scream you were only seventeen at the top of our lungs while driving in the rain

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it’s so rude when my phone dies instead of me

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aside from being the worst person alive i am literally perfect

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get yourself someone who hates you so much that they can’t think of anything else

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when he’s literally words on paper >>>

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so what if i want to daydream and romanticize everything and pretend im in an indie film we are all gonna end up in graves anyway at least im hot and having fun

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yeah yeah yeah mortifying ordeal of being known and all that but sometimes a friend mentions something about you that you didn’t think was noticeable and it feels like your heart is being cradled in their hands

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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener

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i used to be shy , you made me sing

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