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detachment (2011) // paraíso perdido (2018)

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You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an island if her thighs are borders? What man wants to lie down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot,

her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things. But God, doesn’t she wear the world well?

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Tell me, father, which to ask forgiveness for: what I am, or what I’m not? Tell me, mother, which should I regret: what I became, or what I didn’t?

thoughts of a stray iii | m.a.w (via dvoyd)

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what highbrow work of fiction might you be reading?

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ok,

but now listen to me carefully,

how about lucas lynggaard tønnesen as achilles and max minghella as patroclus.

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⚖️ 1. @januaryhoney — darshana suresh, howling at the moon (atlas still stands but does anyone else) / 2. daehyun kim — moonassi, time cures / 3. warsan shire, what they did yesterday afternoon

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I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

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The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.

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From Homer’s Odyssey.

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Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre