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“Some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living”

Book:Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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Ocean Vuong

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“Try as I might, I have no memory of what we did the rest of the day, or even of saying goodbye, because it's blended in with all my other visits and all the other goodbyes. Sometimes I try to trick myself into remembering, to observe the day casually from the side, trying to get it to roll itself around and reveal to me what we did or said when the visit came to an end. But I can't.”

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Book:The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“I had the strange feeling that this world—not just Melanie, but the entire orb of the planet—did not want me, no matter how much I wanted it.”

Funny Sad Depressing

Book:The Host

Source: The Host

“I won't even be a ghost to her”

Death Sad Angst Remembering Loved Ones

Book:They Both Die at the End

Source: They Both Die at the End

“Having heard screaming and banging, I stood in the doorway of their bedroom, and in the silence I watched my mother watch my father and I wondered if they knew, between them, how to fix him.”

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Book:The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“Mi corazón aullaba como un lobo desterrado: sin manada y ninguna compañía, solo con los recuerdos vagos de los que alguna vez fue”

Romance Quotes Sad Tristeza Goodreads

Author:Danae van Diejen

“When he closed his eyes they almost felt real.”

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Book:for as long as you need us

Source: for as long as you need us

“He looked at them for a long moment, memorizing them as best he could. With bravery he didn’t know he had, Harry removed the stone set in a ring from his finger and watched as they disappeared.”

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Book:for as long as you need us

Source: for as long as you need us

“The two middle-size boxes can be mum and dad. The little box with the picture of the motorcycle, that's Harry. And the big box that they all came in, that's their house, and Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and Dudley aren't allowed in, so there.”

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Author:TheDivineComedian

“I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without the evidence of slime and/ but let this be unmistakable this poem is not consent I do not consent”

Poetry Force Poem Consent Rape

Book:Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems

Source: Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems

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