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"It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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"Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street."

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Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell

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"Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver."

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Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice

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"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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"But we both know how it goes — I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater, I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife."

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Wishbone, Richard Siken

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"人の言うことは気にするな。「こうすれば、ああ言われるだろう…」こんなくだらない感情のせいで、どれだけの人がやりたいこともできずに死んでいくのだろう。"

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(John Lennon)

2010-07-02

"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, ‘Hi.’ They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word."

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Augusten Burroughs

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"I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong."

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Morrissey (1984)

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"It is June, and I am tired of being brave."

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Anne Sexton
The Truth The Dead Know

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"I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young."

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Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell

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"Suppose that a man, by word of mouth, offers to marry a woman and that the woman murmurs her acquiescence in accents so soft that her shy assent is inaudible. If the man, smarting from his assumed repulse, promptly marries another woman, the first could surely not sue him for breach of promise of marriage."

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G.C. Cheshire, D.C.L., F.B.A & C. H. S. Fifoot, M.A., F.B.A., The Law of Contract

LOL OKAY. Gotta love law books!

"The thing about patriarchy is that individual men, gay and straight, are often really wonderful people who you love deeply, but they have internalized some really poisonous shit. So every once in a while they say or do something that really shakes you because you’re no longer totally certain they see you as a human being, and you feel totally disempowered to explain that to them."

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"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door."

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The “shortest horror story ever written”, attributed to Frederic Brown.

Futility Closet

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