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“Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving.”

“She demands a great deal from life; she reads, dreams of love —always of love.”

“She’s a star-gazer, a dreamy, sensitive soul. She’s a nymph taking refuge in her illusions. She wanders about in a garden, this sweet fanciful girl.”

“She was passionately romantic. She spun more and more fantastic daydreams until her longing for love became an obsession.”

"I don't think people love me. They love versions of me I have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. The easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love."

what’s in a name?

pronounce my name like a firework; undo me in a rainburst, unzip my cloud skin. i’ll pour onto your floor. hold me like earth, open up your hands to me, let me find all of your dandelion secrets and i’ll take their teeth out of your veins. we can make each other spring even in the winter.

I made myself soft as the sky. / I loved so open / I knew every edge / and chose to fall from each of them