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in a world of endless desires, point me to the room where I can simply love you

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An Illustrated Dictionary of Emotion
An Illustrated Dictionary of Emotion
when ask polly/heather havrilesky wrote "the pain of heartbreak isn't actually so terrible, once you subtract shame from the picture" !!!!!!
when ask polly/heather havrilesky wrote…
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when do you feel rested?
when do you feel rested?

my roommate and i always just get each other sweet little things. sometimes i come home and she’s just like “i got u this drink to try bc i know u like these flavors!”

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
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"Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come."

Mario Quintana

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pickup truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”

∆ Danusha Laméris, Small Kindness

Danusha Laméris, Small Kindness

sorry for speaking all of my thoughts out loud like that.

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