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He had not given the tortoise a name but he had scratched his family’s identification number into its shell with the tip of his mother’s nail file.
“He visits my town once a year.
He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.
I spend all my money on him.
Who, girl, your man?
No, a mango.”
― In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau
He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.
I spend all my money on him.
Who, girl, your man?
No, a mango.”
― In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau
“That we had been drawn, both by a misapprehension of the local rhetoric and by the manipulation of our own rhetorical weaknesses, into a game we did not understand, a play of power in a political tropic alien to us, seemed apparent, and yet there we remained.”
― Salvador
― Salvador
“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”
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“Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master--obey!”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.”
― Cannibal
― Cannibal
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