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drink up
the first time you and I met we were both drunk, and the moon shone through the crossbeams like smoke through a sieve. you took your bourbon with mint and I, a lavender gin and tonic. our voices...
View Article"I’ve gotten drunk before, he mused. On what? the other boy asked. On you, he...
“I’ve gotten drunk before, he mused. On what? the other boy asked. On you, he replied.” - Fragment 40
View Articleburning bridges
If you ever want to swallow a bottle of pills, I want you to swallow your sadness instead. Break a window; shatter it to pieces, but don’t you dare use those shards of glass on your own skin. Your body...
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"Once a stranger died in my arms, she remarked. Before the ambulance came I...
“Once a stranger died in my arms, she remarked. Before the ambulance came I looked in their pockets to see if I could find anything to give to their loved ones. And the other girl asked, What did you...
View Article"Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be...
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” - Homer, The Iliad (via larmoyante)
View Articlebittersweet
How sad it is that somewhere in the world, someone is writing about you. Perhaps they are a stranger. They will write about how the shadows eat the moon and crumble it to black dust, just like your...
View ArticleI have to say that I am absolutely and madly infatuated with "Poetry Over...
Thank you very much, and I’m so happy that your English teacher loves Billy Collins! I’ve never had a teacher before who even so much as mentioned his work. And of course I’m not appalled; I appreciate...
View Article"I went shopping at the grocery store once, and found myself stopping in the...
“I went shopping at the grocery store once, and found myself stopping in the dairy aisle, she remarked. And why would you do a thing like that? her friend inquired. Because I recognized the kind of...
View Articlei think i'm in love with you, because you're the first person i've ever found...
I am forever keeping this message. I can truly feel your love for words and I very much appreciate your kindness. Thank you. :)
View Articlesewing nouns and verbs together
submerge, v. When you step out of the shower I immediately want to hold you. Your hair is wet, stuck to your forehead like seaweed, and I feel as if you are slowly drowning me. The blue thread of veins...
View Articlechicken soup for the soul
When your heart breaks you lie in bed for hours and stare at the ceiling, wondering endlessly how you ended up here in the first place. You make chicken soup in the kitchen, chopping and stirring,...
View Article"Happy Birthday, she said to him. If I could give you any present in the...
“Happy Birthday, she said to him. If I could give you any present in the world, it would be this: the moon, wrapped in cellophane like a bouquet. We could share one ray of its light every day of our...
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Whenever I check out a new book from the library, the first...
Whenever I check out a new book from the library, the first thing I do is open the front cover and read the dedication. Out of the thousands of dedications I have read, this is the one that always hits...
View Article* are there other dedications that have stood out to you?
“To caffeine and sugar, my companions through many a long night of writing.” –Ship of Magic, Robb Hobb “This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody” -Post Office, Charles Bukowski...
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the reader and his books by writingsforwinter
the reader and his books by writingsforwinter
View Articlewill you please show me some beautiful words to help me stay here tonight? I...
It’s awfully hard to be trapped in your own body sometimes, isn’t it? I always thought all these bones, all this skin surrounding them was just terrifying. But then there are good things, and they’re...
View Article"When I was a kid and my parents took me to the aquarium, I’d always go...
“When I was a kid and my parents took me to the aquarium, I’d always go straight over to the jellyfish tank and press my face and hands against the glass, he remarked. What’s so special about...
View ArticleI love you.
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other” -Nabokov <3
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