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“Hurt me,” she dared, “and I will hurt you twice as much. I will break you into a million pieces and scatter the drops of your essence throughout the Underworld. I will swallow the dark of your eyes and I will drape myself in your bones. I will take the shadows for my children and braid the petals of dread in my hair. And you will be known forevermore not as the devil, but as my dead husband.”
― The Bride of Death
― The Bride of Death
“What did i expect ?
To leave a hemorrhage
of violets wherever I walked ?
No. A lost son is called prodigal.
A lost daughter is just called lost”
― Love & a Loaded Gun
To leave a hemorrhage
of violets wherever I walked ?
No. A lost son is called prodigal.
A lost daughter is just called lost”
― Love & a Loaded Gun
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
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“Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.”
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