fairydrowning:

— Love poetry discovered by Archaeologists in Egypt from the New Kingdom period 3,300 years ago.

[TEXT ID: I shall lie down at home / and pretend to be dying. / Then the neighbors will all come in / to gape at me, and, perhaps, she will come / with them. / When she comes, I won’t need a doctor, / she knows why I am ill. END ID]

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purplebuddhaproject:

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”

—

Edwin Louis Cole

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somnoroasa:

“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet.”

— Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone

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purplebuddhaproject:

“You can’t force someone to respect you, but you can choose not to be disrespected.”

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purplebuddhaproject:

“Stay single until someone actually complements your life in a way that makes it better not to be single. If not, it’s not worth it.”

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