Enjoying my freedom before I return to uni

Guys…I didn’t realize dog earring pages is so controversial. I will however continue to do it.

I usually don't have a problem lending out books. The times I've lent them, they've always made their way back, so I guess I've been lucky in that aspect. As long as I know the book will be treated well and eventually returned, I'm happy to share.

We need a return to analog culture: handwritten letters, seeing films in the cinema, reading books, in-person visits, time in the outdoors. We weren't meant to spend our whole lives online. The joys of tangible living are something no one can take from you.

saba In Egyptian arabic we say وحشتني/وحشتيني which gets translated to "I missed you" in English but it actually means 'you made everything around me dull and empty by not being here'

Dear God, at least bring me into contact with them, satisfy my longing to kiss them. To feel their light on my lips, to feel it glow inside my body, leaving it shining and transparent, fresh and moist like the minutes that come before dawn

"You and I are suddenly what the trees try to tell us we are: That their merely being there means something”

I am glad there are Books. They are better than Heaven for that is unavoidable while one may miss these.

And I fell in love with the way the sun touched your legs in the morning, how they draped over mine. No photograph would be enough to contain the memory I have of falling in love with you over and over again. Courtney Peppernell, I Hope You Stay

I honestly think that crying over a book is one of the most prominent sign of compassion for humanity. You’re crying over someone who isn’t really there, doesn’t really exist, but you still feel for them as if you have known them your entire life.

2 June, 1939 (London) I kiss your eyes, my happiness, lots of kisses.

a thread of resources to help palestine 🇵🇸

First 4 pictures describe you. Pretty accurate!

Currently Reading: Open Me Carefully. Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson.

All I do is yearn and get headaches

Yearning isn't for me I almost killed myself