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Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava high in silica cools quickly preventing crystal growth.

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

I love you

The philosopher lost his mind trying to decipher this kind of love. A stoner said it's the trippiest thing he's ever seen. The poet obsessed with his sonnets was jealous of what i could write of you. The priest hadn't heard such a devoted prayer. The scholars were astounded that they never learnt of it in years. The moon wishes to be adored like i adore you and the skycrapers aim to reach at such heights. I love you, more than words and oceans could hold it's depth.

I love you

Gravity can hit lower than minus degrees and i still couldn't tell you. There's a better chance of stars raining down than you & I coming in togetherness.

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Hiiiii can you please suggest some beautifully written books. With beautiful poetic proses that you want to highlight and sort of like that.

Some of these are the heartwarmingly beautiful kind, while others have the potential to chew on your psyche. Nonetheless, I find these writings absolutely breathtaking. 🌼

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Ocean Vuong

Fish in Exile / Vi Khi Nao

The Vegetarian, Human Acts, The White Book / Han Kang

Grief is the Thing with Feathers / Max Porter

Death with Interruptions / José Saramago

The Song of Achilles, Circe / Madeline Miller

Snow Country / Yasunari Kawabata

The Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson

Letters to a Young Poet / Rainer Maria Rilke

No Longer Human / Osamu Dazai

Her Body and Other Parties / Carmen Maria Machado

Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce

Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View / E.M. Forster

The Housekeeper and the Professor / Yōko Ogawa

The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde

The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho

The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Mary, Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov

Men Without Women / Haruki Murakami

The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera

Giovanni's Room / James Baldwin

The Prophet / Kahlil Gibran

The Collector / John Fowles

Swimming in the Dark / Tomasz Jedrowski

The Girl at the Lion d'Or / Sebastian Faulks

Call Me By Your Name, Find Me / André Aciman

White Nights / Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Camille: The Lady of the Camellias / Alexandre Dumas fils

If We Were Villains / M.L. Rio

hello, could you please recommend some beautiful poetry books? also, I love your blog so so much. i usually take an hour to sit down and go through each piece you quote in your webweaves. please know that you're touching so many souls and being a tether for so many,,,more love and power to you <33

Thank you, love, from the bottom of my heart. I hope the Universe is especially charitable to you🌼

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Crush by Richard Siken

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Averno by Louise Glück

Devotions by Mary Oliver

When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz

This Way to the Sugar by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

Phrasis by Wendy Xu

Essential Bukowski: Poetry. by Charles Bukowski

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

i want to start reading, where should I begin ? :)

First and foremost, just know that it's going to change your life and your relationship with it.

Secondly, do not feel feel uneasy or discouraged if your first shot at it doesn't make you fall in love with reading. It will only mean that you haven't found your book yet.

If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't take a long classic (*cough* russian literature *cough*) as a first stepping stone.

Instead, try one of these:

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (if this one doesn't make you fall head over heels with reading ... *** also, don't worry if you haven't read "The Iliad", Madeline Miller takes your hand and patiently walks you through every room, giving backstories for every character.)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (I'm aware that this is a thick one, but trust me, you'll fly through the pages. To me, it was quite fast-pace, yet had the right amount of depth to keep you emotionally invested. Are some aspects of this book problematic? Yup. Is it a textbook example of eurocentrism? Yes. But still I think it's worth reading.)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (no words, love, no words)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (simply the sweetest book I've ever had the honor to read)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (reading this book smells like cinnamon buns and hot chocolate (or warm coffee)

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi (filled with contemporary references, feels like that moment when you've slipped on something and are waiting for the fall *which isn't coming** and smells like early 20s struggles)

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura (very strange, yet absolutely captivating)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (okay, hear me out. I'm not just recommending this because I am biased and Kafka is the love of my life. I DO really think that this book is peculiarly interesting enough to keep you engaged and impactful enough to make you read Kafka's other works)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (it's either love or hate with this one)

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ( Am I recommending this book because I am Tateve Simonyan and they are Ocean Vuong? Yes. Is it one of (if not the) most beautiful accumulation of words you'll ever read? Yes.)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (I read this one at the age of 14 and remember not being able to put it down. Additionally, it's filled with wonderful music recommendations.)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (need I say more?)

Perhaps you'd better start with short stories?

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Or maybe you'd like some poetry books?

Crush by Richard Siken

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope

Now, buckle up, love, cuz you're in for a wild ride 🌼

Cold Day

You are not a failure for the things your mental health makes it difficult for you to do.

you will make many mistakes, but you will never be one.

just gonna say this: if someone has social anxiety and they ask you something akin to ‘are you mad at me’ or ‘do you hate me’, it isn’t because they don’t trust you, it’s because their brain literally tells them that all the time

it’s not a personal slight, it’s insecurity caused by mental illness

thanks

Mental illness is not a reflection of your character or who you are as a person. You are not a bad person or broken for having a mental health condition. It’s something that happened to you and not because of who you are in any way.

Friendly reminder that if you are mentally ill or neurodiverse in some way and can’t work: it’s not your fault. You are not a failure or less worthy than people who work. The workplace is inherently ableist and tends not to accommodate people with mental health conditions of any kind and it is not your fault that it is this way or that your condition makes it harder for you to work than someone who doesn’t have it.

Kevin Lenaghan, “Stairway”, “Glass Palace”, and “Crystal Stairway” (2021)

An inspiring video by Egyptian Scholar, Muhammad Mitwalli Alsharawi on having Tawakal in Allah (swt)

We met on the pathway to paradise May we meet in the pathways of paradise