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I love you
because you made me
want to love you
more than I love my privacy
my freedom my commitments
and responsibilities.

I love you because I changed my life
to love you
because you saw me one friday
afternoon and decided that I would
love you

I love you I love you I love you.

Nikki Giovanni, from Resignation (via violentwavesofemotion)

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They have photographed the brain and here is the picture: it is full of branches, as I always suspected. Each time you arrive, the electricity of seeing you is a huge tree lumbering through my skull, the roots waving. I touch you, and I am created in you somewhere as a complex filament of light. You rest on me and my shoulder holds your heavy unbelievable skull, crowded with radiant suns, a new planet, the people submerged in you a lost civilization I can never excavate. My hands trace the contours of a total universe — its different colors, flowers, its undiscovered animals, violent or serene, its other air, its claws, its paradise rivers.
Margaret Atwood, I Was Reading A Scientific Article (via chrstn)

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Only be friends with people you actually like.
Don’t let social anxiety trap you in your hotel room at AWP. At Tin House, Courtney Maum gives advice for how to make and keep your writer friends in an essay aptly titled, “How Not to Hate Your Friends.” Pair with: Our dispatch from AWP 2013 to know what you’re in for. (via millionsmillions)

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when eating pho
x: do you know how to make this?

me: no

when eating gamjatang
x: do you know how to make this?
me: no

when eating yookgaejang
x: do you know how to make this?
me: no 

i guess that’s three new things that i have to learn how to make
-.- 괜히 눈 높아가지고