#quote from descending figure (louise glück)

[dreamwritesimagines]

the absolute GRIP that GoS has on me is insane because i just came across a quote that immediately made me think of ben and clover. here it is:

“Here is my hand, he said.

Here is my hand that will not harm you.”

- Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; Epithalamium

sobbing!! i love them sm

EXCUSE ME WHILE I CRY-

Darliiiiing! 😍❤️ This quote fits them perfectly yes! ❤️ Oh I love this, thank you so so much! ❤️❤️❤️

[icefell]

#LOUISE GLÜCK:    assorted quotes from descending figure, metamorphosis, averno, october, & others. | accepting.

@etherealguard asked: i always wondered what you wished for.

"Hm?" her gaze turned away from the array of twinkling stars to focus on her companion. (March had been so lost in thought she forgot he was even there, oops. )

"My ... wish? umm ... where'd that sudden thought come from? Kinda random ..." but she smiled and small shoulders shrugged.

"Didn't you know you're not supposed to tell? Once a wish is made it's meant to stay a secret. - but..."

And then a look of mischievous painted over ivory features. "I'll tell you mine ..... IF..... you tell me yours? I'd say that's a fair trade off... whaddya say?"

[falling-for-boys]

thiam moodboard

here is my hand, he said. here is my hand that will not harm you.

[puppy-phum]

“I suddenly recall Uncle Panma’s words. He said that either Xiaoge or I will kill one another.”

“No.”

happy birthday @cross-d-a ♥

[prophecyprompts]

#LOUISE GLÜCK:    assorted quotes from descending figure, metamorphosis, averno, october, & others.

here is my hand that will not harm you. 

the garden admires you. 

death doesn't frighten me. 

i know intense love always leads to mourning. 

this is the end, isn't it? 

the self i wished to be is the self i am.

i have nothing to give them. 

surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something. 

i remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere. 

what is my heart to you, that you must break it over and over? 

i, too, desire knowledge of paradise. 

long ago, i was wounded. 

doesn't everyone want love? 

do you dare send me away as though you were waiting for something better? 

do you see? we were made fools of. 

i was afraid of love; of being taken away, 

everyone afraid of love is afraid of death. 

i think here i will leave you. 

no one can see me. only you. 

you will not be spared. 

i always wondered what you wished for. 

what do you think i wish for?

[xshayarsha]

Do you know any lines/quotes/words about wanting to be someone else/being jealous of someone?

“A thing trapped, you move wounded, you are hurt, you hurt, you want to get out, you want to tear yourself out”  — Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics.

“I want to be destroyed in you, that is, I want to be you. But you are no longer in yourself; you are already entirely in me.”  — Marina Tsvetaeva, from Eathly Signs; Moscow Diaries.

“She felt like somebody else, not herself, a new person, quite glad. But she new it was fragile, and she dreaded it.”  — D.H. Lawrence, from The Rainbow.

“Identity is what we bequeath, not what we inherit, what we invent, not what we remember. Identity is the distorted image in the mirror that we must break the minute we grow fond of it”.  — Mahmoud Darwish, from A River Dies of Thirst.

“I am an image now, again, born in the eyes of others. I am the being that is born wrongly in human eyes. I had always seen and named myself as I was told to”.  — Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts.

“How much can you change before and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?”  — Richard Siken, from War of the Foxes.

“They gave me a name and alienated me from myself”.  — Clarice Lispector, from A Breath of Life.

“Can I never escape this interminable mourning for myself?”  — Susan Sontag, from Reborn; Journals and Notebooks 1947-1964.

“Often I would let my own name glide past me though I craved its protection”.   — Louise Glück, from Descending Figure.

[icefell]

#LOUISE GLÜCK:    assorted quotes from descending figure, metamorphosis, averno, october, & others. | accepting.

@liefeng asked: here is my hand that will not harm you.

Though he could be considered an intimidating man by many - March saw the gentleness within the General. She didn't flinch when he reached out to her and instead took his hand, appendages squeezing softly.

She noted how tough his skin was compared to hers and for a transient moment she wondered what sorts of battles he had faced?

"It never crossed my mind that you'd hurt me, silly. -" she quipped and then a warm smile pulled along rosy lips.

"I trust you ..."