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“And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.”
― Ariel
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.”
― Ariel
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
― Ariel
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
― Ariel
“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“And then he put forth a theory as twisted as his bow tie: everyone has their own witness. Someone that we secretly want to convince, someone all of our actions are directed toward, someone we can’t stop secretly talking to. This witness, he added, is not the most obvious, is almost never your spouse or father or sister or lover, is often someone trivial, secondary to the normal course of life.”
― A Luminous Republic
― A Luminous Republic
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