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The worst part about using a friend as a stepping stone in a game of political subterfuge / power gathering scheme is that you can only really do it once and then you have to build rapport with a whole new friend before you can do it again

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Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

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“I want them all to have been right to fear me. Right to have killed my mother, to have ruined my father. I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”

- Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar

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Jenny Holzer, Protect Me From What I Want, date unknown

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BARU CORMORANT / TAIN HU in THE MASQUERADE

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters W.S. Merwin, Separation Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Louise Glück, A Myth of Devotion Helen Oyeyemi, White Is For Witching

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BARU CORMORANT & THE MASQUERADE “She'll swallow her hate, prove her talent, and join the Masquerade. She will learn the secrets of empire. She'll be exactly what they need.”

Natasha Trethewey Tumblr User werewolfest

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THE DUCHESS TAIN HU in THAT scene

Anne Sexton, A Letter to WD Snodgrass Bertolt Brecht, The Leavetaking Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

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THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT in THE MASQUERADE

Anne Sexton, The Sickness Unto Death George Bataille, Guilty Unknown Czeslaw Milosz, After Enduring Sharon Olds, Blood, Tin, Straw

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THE DUCHESS TAIN HU Anna Akhmatova, Anno Domini MCMXXI

THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT Fatima Aamer Bilal, The Heart Beats for Two

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BARU CORMORANT  in THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT 

Aeschylus,The Oresteia: Agamemnon Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching Hélène Cixous, The Perjured City

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DUCHESS TAIN HU TO THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT in THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT

Lana del Rey, Cinnamon Girl  Warsan Shire, For women who are ‘difficult’ to love Unknown Caitlyn Siehl, Haunting Sylvia Plath, The Rival tumblr user heavensghost, original poetry

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BARU CORMORANT in THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 Florence + The Machine, King Oscar Wilde, The Duchess of Padua Caitlyn Siehl, Cut Clementine von Radics, There is a Lion in my Living Room Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin