a lifetime burning in every moment

A random smattering of things from a gal in flux.
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Ellie Goulding, High For This (The Weeknd cover)

…oh, so good morning listening.

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Metric, Speed the Collapse

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Electric Guest, This Head I Hold

People will occasionally try to take advantage of your good nature and you need to be able to say ‘No’ and ‘Fuck you’ when necessary.

— Michael Donovan (via richtong)

If you like someone. Don’t play a game. Don’t pretend to hate them so that they never know that actually you like them. Stop being so scared. This is a rare moment in life, given that you are so cynical you never like anyone. So, act like you like them. Let like grow unfettered, if it sees fit to do so, without the hindrance of your neuroses and past baggage and secret and less than secret fears of rejection. Be nice, kind, generous, caring, all of those things that you actually would want someone to be to you. If they dump you, they’ll feel really, really bad. 

-The Importance of Being Earnest: A Guide for Today’s Cynical World

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Daniel Rossen, Golden Mile

They left me 

with your shadow, 

saying things like 

Life is not fair 

& I believed them 

for a long time. 

But today, 

I remembered 

the way you laughed 

& the heat 

of your hand 

in mine 

& I knew that 

life is more fair 

than we can 

ever imagine 

if 

we are there to live it

-More Fair

‎But what’s needier than turning your life into one endless Sally Jesse Raphael makeover episode? What’s more helpless than carving yourself out of some dude’s janky old rib? That is the opposite of finding an actual person who might actually love you. So stop it. You are not “too” anything for anyone. Be a person. Hang out with people. Do what you want and you’ll get what you want. Giving up on other people’s expectations isn’t settling—it’s demanding what you f*#$ing deserve.

— For Chrissakes, There Is Nothing Wrong WIth You: A Dating Manifesto 

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