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“Besides, sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific;”
― Minor Detail
― Minor Detail
“The dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn’t. My guilt will not purify me”
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“To be made of flesh was humiliation.”
― Lives of Girls and Women
― Lives of Girls and Women
“You're not a monster,' I said.
But I lied.
What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.
I read that parents suffering from PTSD are more likely to hit their children. Perhaps there is a monstrous origin to it, after all. Perhaps to lay hands on your child is to prepare him for war. To say processing a heartbeat is never as simple as the heart's task of saying yes yes yes to the body.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
But I lied.
What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.
I read that parents suffering from PTSD are more likely to hit their children. Perhaps there is a monstrous origin to it, after all. Perhaps to lay hands on your child is to prepare him for war. To say processing a heartbeat is never as simple as the heart's task of saying yes yes yes to the body.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Era proprio per questo motivo che ero felice all'idea che non dovevo fare niente di strepitoso. L'unica cosa che mi era concessa era prendermi cura, riempiendolo di fiori, del piccolo vaso che portavo dentro di me. Di certo non potevo credere di cambiare il mondo con le mie idee. Dovevo solo essere me stessa, una persona in grado di godersi la vita. Un essere che può esporsi al sole senza provare vergogna, una che riesce a sentire le parole degli spiriti che vivono sotto le rocce o all'ombra degli alberi. L'unica cosa che dovevo fare era arrivare alla morte opo aver trascorso una vita a contemplare le cose belle del creato, tenendomi alla larga da ciò che mi avrebbe costretta a distogliere lo sguardo.
Una cosa che non era impossibile. Dopo tutto, gli esseri umani sono stati concepiti per vivere così, ed è per questo che sono venuti su questo mondo.”
― Il coperchio del mare
Una cosa che non era impossibile. Dopo tutto, gli esseri umani sono stati concepiti per vivere così, ed è per questo che sono venuti su questo mondo.”
― Il coperchio del mare
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