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“I keep trying to be delicate. I’m not telling everything.”
— Alice Notley, from In the Pines; “In the Pines”
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“𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺, I told myself, 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺.”
— Gillian Flynn, from “Sharp Objects,” originally published c. September 2006
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“For women like me / To feel this rage / I don’t care / I don’t care / I don’t care / About exclusion / Because I’ve always / Been excluded”
— Angela Veronica Wong, from “On Weathering,” published in The Shallow Ends
“She says ‘I’m right in front of you and you don’t see me – it’s frightening.’”
— Marguerite Duras, from Blue Eyes, Black Hair (pub. November 1986)
“meanwhile everyone i love is going extinct. i turn on the lights & elsewhere a massacre. elsewhere a school: rubble again. a prison. dogs split apart in the heat. meanwhile things keep being what they are. so. how else to get touched.”
— Franny Choi, “SM,” published in God Is In The TV
“maybe I mistake the violence for home”
— Julian Randall, from “Leslie Odom Jr. Sings Obama’s Anger on NPR” published in The Adroit Journal
“You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. (…) Recall, remember: please do not die again. Let there be continuity (…)”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
(via mythaelogy)
