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“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“I don't watch a lot of porn, but a typical search term for me is "fat lesbians." What a beautiful fantasy: to be accepted and embraced and adored as your biggest self, the most you, by a woman who is her fullest her.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I despised the book from the first page, but unfortunately I was at a point in my life in which finishing what I started reading was an absolute necessity. I’ve become wiser since then.”
― Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress