Rebecca

“We were in the Safeway parking lot. I couldn’t find my cigarettes. You said, "Hurry up!" but I was worried there would be a hold-up and we would be stuck in a hostage situation, hiding behind the frozen meats, with nothing to smoke for hours. You said "Don’t be silly," so I followed you into the store. We were thumping the melons when I heard somebody say, "Nobody move!" I leaned over and whispered in your ear, "I told you so.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I shall write it in my diary to-night

What?

That a burnt child loves the fire”
― Oscar Wilde

“Que mes seins te provoquent
Je veux ta rage.
Je veux voir tes yeux s’épaissir
Tes joues blanchir en se creusant.
Je veux tes frissons.
Que tu éclates entre mes cuisses
Que mes désirs soient exaucés sur le sol fertile
De ton corps sans pudeur.”
― Joyce Mansour

“I had spent dozens of hours studying the photographs as though if I stared at them long enough and longingly enough I would, by some sort of osmosis, be transported into their clear, pure silence.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History