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"My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there— and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses."

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Karen Russell, “Ava Wrestles the Alligator”,
St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

(Source: libraryland)

"When I was a boy, we called it punishment
to be locked up in a room. God’s apparent
abdication from the affairs of the world
seemed unforgivable. This morning,
climbing five stories to my apartment,
I remember my father’s angry voice
mixed up with anxiety & love. As always,
the possibility of home—at best an ideal—
remains illusory, so I read Plato, for whom love
has not been punctured. I sprawl on the carpet,
like a worm composting, understanding things
about which I have no empirical knowledge.
Though the door is locked, I am free.
Like an outdated map, my borders are changing."

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“Birthday” by Henri Cole (The Atlantic, July/August 2005)

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"I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain."

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Catherine Breillat

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"Je crois à la volupté de la chair et à l’irrémédiable solitude de l’âme."

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Hjalmar Söderberg

"The ancient Chinese defined meaning as ‘that which has always existed through itself’. This dream was for me too an intimation that the dreaming process must have always existed through itself, and that when the last secret of nature had been unveiled and the final problem of creation resolved, however opaque the heart of all matter, and swiftly changing as may be the many-faceted and elusive spirit, we shall still find, like stars in the night, images of the dream that always existed through itself."

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Laurens van der Post, Jung and the Story of Our Time

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"I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds."

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Egon Schiele

"Some women have a penis…. some men don’t….. and the rest of the world is just going to have to get the fuck over it."

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JULIA SERANO

dark humour isn’t everyone’s cup of liquidised dead baby

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(Source: uuiiioo)

If I dip myself in this acid are you sure

my devils will bleach away to pure?

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Anne Carson, Decreation

(Source: babyfaline)

"I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin."

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The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

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