“I wanna be defined by the things that I love, not the things I hate. Not the things that I'm afraid of. Not the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I just think that you are what you love.”

It is also then that I wish I believed in some sort of life after life, that in another universe, maybe on a small red planet where we have not legs but tails, where we paddle through the atmosphere like seals, where the air itself is sustenance, composed of trillions of molecules of protein and sugar and all one has to do is open one's mouth and inhale in order to remain alive and healthy, maybe you two are there together, floating through the climate. Or maybe he is closer still: maybe he is that gray cat that has begun to sit outside our neighbor's house, purring when I reach out my hand to it; maybe he is that new puppy I see tugging at the end of my other neighbor's leash; maybe he is that toddler I saw running through the square a few months ago, shrieking with joy, his parents huffing after him; maybe he is that flower that suddenly bloomed on the rhododendron bush I thought had die...

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”

• ally, ela/dela :)

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• chandler bing, friends
• jim halpert, the office
• neil perry, dead poets society
• theodore twombly, her
• ki seongyeom, run on
• lexi howard, euphoria
• aled last, radio silence
• jo march, litte women
• lee yeoreum, summer strike

gatos, gelato de pistache, pão de alho, pão de queijo, macarrão, açaí, o cheiro de chuva, o sol, as estrelas, o céu, a chuva, o mar (apesar de sentir ansiedade ao pensar em sua imensidão), chá, livros, cheiro de livros, doramas, comédias românticas, o sorriso do lee dohyun, relações internacionais, natureza, as cores azul e verde

desejável ler em 2023

• before the coffee gets cold
• pachinko
• noites brancas
• o quarto de giovanni
• a redoma de vidro
• meu ano de descanso e relaxamento
• pequena coreografia do adeus
• kim jiyoung, nascida em 1982
• a amiga genial, elena ferrante
• daisy jones and the six, taylor jenkins reid

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• o paciente, jasper dewitt
• the midnight library, matt haig
• the spanish love deception, elena armas
• the course of love, alain de botton
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