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“Think of someone you want to touch whom you cannot touch, someone forbidden. Think of a room where there is nothing except the two of you: still, you cannot touch them. Think of the heat between two hands about to touch, the language that exists in that silence.”
— Chelsea Hodson, from Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays; “A Simple Woman,”
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“Whatever I was, they did not want me.”
— Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”
“zweisamkeit”
— (noun) An untranslatable German word, zweisamkeit is described as the togetherness and intimacy you experience with someone else.
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“…the horror of radical closeness, the sweetness of that horror,”
— Delmira Agustini, from The Empty Chalices: Poems; “Vision,” wr. c. 1913 (via bluebeardsbride)
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I’m ok. I’m gonna be ok. I’m gonna live a beautiful life and I’ll get to know beautiful people. I will create things of beauty and be surrounded by flowers. And I’ll love myself, and I’ll be soft, I’ll be kind. And I’ll be ok.
