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But that’s exactly the problem. I’m tired of pulling. I don’t want to pull anymore. I want a dumbwaiter, or an escalator, or a floating rainbow drug cloud. Anything to lift me toward emotional stability. To fix me.
“They are just dirty, all of them, low and cheap and dirty.' He stretched out his hand and pulled me down to the floor beside him. 'All except you. Tous, sauf toi.' He held my face between his hands and I supposed such tenderness has scarcely ever produced such terror as I then felt. 'Ne me laisse pas tomber, je t'en prie,' he said, and kissed me, with a strange insistent gentleness on the mouth.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“We are all on pilgrimage in the journey of ife. We are passing through the earth but once, it should be sacred bliss.”
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“You are my addiction
You are my muse
My worst distraction
My poetry & hues”
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You are my muse
My worst distraction
My poetry & hues”
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“No pilgrimage is holier than compassion, no gospel is truer than kindness, no offering is grander than love.”
― Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
― Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“Am I shattered enough already,
or am I
shattering? (And when do I start to build?)”
― I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain
or am I
shattering? (And when do I start to build?)”
― I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain
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Kristina’s 2025 Year in Books
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