WOES OF A DESPONDENT CHILD

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Why is everything I see the past I’ve tried to forget?

Natasha Trethewey, from “Waterborne,” Monument: Poems New and Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

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“Shadows grew in my veins, my bright belief, my head of dreams deeper than night and sleep.”

Muriel Rukeyser, from The Collected Poems of M. R.; “Night Feeding,”

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“Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.”

— Osho (via naturaekos)

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“If I could, I would apologize to the sky and my room ceiling for all of the nights I’ve awkwardly stared at them remembering things I should have forgotten.”

— Maxwell Diawuoh

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“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway // The Garden of Eden

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