To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Sappho | Leonardo Bistolfi | Safet Zec | Richard Siken | Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee) | Emery Allen | Ron Hicks | Jorge Luis Borges | Holly Warburton | Richard Siken | Joseph Lorusso
When Emily Brönte said “You said I killed you. Haunt me then.”
and when M.L Rio said “Here’s the thing about lust: you don’t have to like each other. Ever heard of hate sex?”
and when Achilles said “There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
and when Oscar Wilde said “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
and when Donna Tartt said “There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”
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Those are purely raw emotions.
Passion, love, panic, power and death are an insane combination.
“She cries less often now, usually in the evening. She will learn to control her tears and despair, because she doesn’t indulge her distress. She tells no one that she’s afraid to close her eyes.”
— Christa Wolf, tr. by Luise von Flotow, from “They Divided The Sky: A Novel,”
marie antoinette was a clueless teenage girl thrown into a marriage and country she had no choice in, and has been slandered for hundreds of years since her death, with made up quotes such as “let them eat cake” when her final words were actually apologising to a guard for stepping on his toes, the fact that despite the extravagance she was much less fancy and money wasting than previous royals, and the erasure of her efforts to listen to and help the people despite having no political experience and her king-husband being useless, all providing a perfect example of the sexualised demonisation of young women with any semblance of power throughout history, and in this essay i will
Anyone: u ok
Me; yeah just thinking about how I’ll never be this young again and about how most of my youth has been lost to depression loneliness and self doubt lol
