AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR MYSELF A NEW HEART FROM SALT AND MUD
Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
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“She only cares for clear, bright nights when, sitting upright and austere as an Egyptian cat-goddess, she stares interminably at the white moon moving across the sky.”
— Colette, from The Complete Claudine Series; “Claudine Getting Married,”
“Loyalty isn’t grey. It’s black and white. You’re either loyal completely, or not loyal at all. And people have to understand this. You can’t be loyal only when it serves you.”
— Sharnay
“She paints her nails, washes her hair every day, wanders through the city, smokes in the streets, goes window-shopping, maybe ducks into a bookstore to buy a book she’ll never read, just for the pleasure of seeing it wrapped up in a package.”
— Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,”
hubris is sexy actually
being so excessively self-confident that the gods themselves have to intervene to teach you not to be such a smug little bastard??? that’s preddy hot
“The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”
— Amy Harmon
And this broke me
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