Lizzie
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“I’m good, but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad.”
― Luster
― Luster
“Because I could not stop for death
he kindly stopped for me
I asked to see a photograph
confirming his identity
The faces matched - the eyes were warm -
the hair was long and grey -
both smiled but as I tried to move
death blocked my way.
No no, my sweetheart, what's the rush?
Come on, let's go to bed,
there's time for love, there's surely time
for happiness - death said.
His voice was soft, his skin was pale,
his fingers brushed my face -
Oh? time for love? I said - but where?
He said: I know a place.
He led me down a flowered track
and on a bank of earth
he loved me till my body screamed
from every living nerve.
I slept then for eternity
drugged as I was with love:
death bent down to my sleeping face
and on earth's pillow made a place
to leave his photograph.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation
he kindly stopped for me
I asked to see a photograph
confirming his identity
The faces matched - the eyes were warm -
the hair was long and grey -
both smiled but as I tried to move
death blocked my way.
No no, my sweetheart, what's the rush?
Come on, let's go to bed,
there's time for love, there's surely time
for happiness - death said.
His voice was soft, his skin was pale,
his fingers brushed my face -
Oh? time for love? I said - but where?
He said: I know a place.
He led me down a flowered track
and on a bank of earth
he loved me till my body screamed
from every living nerve.
I slept then for eternity
drugged as I was with love:
death bent down to my sleeping face
and on earth's pillow made a place
to leave his photograph.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation
“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“We somehow know this is the last day we will ever paint our nails like her, ever scour the shelves at the pharmacy for her messages. We are no longer sure she is in control of her own mystery.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
“Brutes! How can you girls be such brutes?” They cried. We cried, too, because we felt they were saying we were wrong. We felt foul and fatherly and frightened of ourselves. We tried to make ourselves small. We were coiled up but we were not broken. And we knew our mothers’ idea of goodness was not measured by morals but by how much noise we made. And we quickly grew tired of trying to be good in their way.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
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