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i’m literate again!

“you want to be a martyr?”
“i guess. yeah, actually. something like that.”

only 10 pages in and i’m already gasping for air

selin is so me that it makes me quite sad for the both of us

i love books that make my brain go brrrrrrrrrrrr y’know

i keep picking up shitty poetry i know i won’t like and yet i do it anyways

she’s me i’m her

i wanna cry every time i pick up this book so this is why it’s taking me so long to finish

“In order to survive in the world, we have little option but to spend our lives being rather 'defended' , that is, at one remove from our more vulnerable sides, closed off from certain emotions, focused - in many cases - on not feeling.”