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"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafiz (via perfect)

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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."

- William Shakespeare  (via isolatedinhungerland)

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"Every time someone else has called me crazy, it’s been worth it."

- DateByNumbers (via fuckititsfriday)

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"I never longed for a man the way I longed for the horizon. If I had been born different, they would have called me a sailor, but I was a born a woman, so they called me a fool. My eyes lingered on the edge of the world as I watched the sun run away, quietly, but clearly, calling my name."

- Date By Numbers: on longing  (via abcdefghiloveyou)

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"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."

- Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (via them-witches)

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"Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?"

- Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie (via decembrist)

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"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- edwin elliot (via limbsey)

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"

I tell my mother
I’ve won the Nobel Prize.

Again? she says. Which
discipline this time?

It’s a little game
we play: I pretend

I’m somebody, she
pretends she isn’t dead.

"

- The Committee Weighs In, Andrea Cohen (via writingsforwinter)

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