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edwardian-girl-next-door · 10 months

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"Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life."

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)

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boymiffy · 2 years

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‘She had glanced up to see that her mother was doing the same and she wanted to say, Do you think of her, do you still catch yourself listening for her footsteps, for her voice, for the sound of her breathing at night, because I do, all the time. I still think that one day I might wake and she will be there, next to me, again; there will have been some wrinkle or pleat in time and we will be back to where we were, when she was living and breathing.’

– Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell

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shisasan · 11 months

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own [originally published 1929]

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 9 months

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Miranda July, The First Bad Man

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mournfulroses · 2 months

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Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948

#lit #albert camus #maria casares #quotes #letters #words #writings #love letters #fragments #excerpts #1940's #p

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"You know, love doesn't mean "l never want you to change." But I don't think it means "I don't care if you change" either. So I suppose it might mean, "I believe that you'll always be the person I adore." A declaration of faith, perhaps."

– Sayaka Saeki, やがて君になる (Bloom into You), Via "freckled-lili" on Tumblr

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 1 year

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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}

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feral-ballad · 2 years

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Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”

[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]

#katherine larson #lost #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #lit #typography #poetry collection #american literature #american poetry

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newvision · 2 months

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E.M. Forster, from Maurice

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Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

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ninasdrafts · 2 months

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#writing #spilled ink #poetry #prose #quote #words #excerpt from a book i'll never write #writers on tumblr #quotes #creative writing #lit #literature #love quotes

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 11 months

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"She buried her face in his flesh. His acceptance of her, she thought, was like a tide. She had lived a life of waiting, she thought now, and the waiting had ended, the thirst for a future was not in her anymore, she was there... It was wonderfully odd."

~ Arthur Miller, "Homely Girl, A Life"