emily

“Here I lie at the Chapel door,
Here lie I because I'm poor,
The farther in the more you'l pay,
Here lie I as warm as they.”
― Richard De'Ath, TOMBSTONE Humour, Or, The Coffin That Carried Them Off In]

“Excuse me, universe,” she whispered to the kitchen floor. “When you almost murdered me today—which was rather brutal, by the way, but I can respect that—were you trying to tell me something?” The universe, very enigmatically, did not respond.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“You never saw such a wild thing as my mother.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“I unbury the past
so that I can name the graves.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry