“I couldn’t tell if I liked being alone, or if I only endured it”
― Luster
― Luster
“Suddenly it feels painful to be this ordinary.”
― Luster
― Luster
“I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men.”
― Luster
― Luster
“I’ve made my own hunger into a practice, made everyone who passes through my life subject to a close and inappropriate reading that occasionally finds its way, often insufficiently, into paint. And when I am alone with myself, this is what I am waiting for someone to do to me, with merciless, deliberate hands, to put me down onto the canvas so that when I’m gone, there will be a record, proof that I was here.”
― Luster
― Luster
“I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born to die.”
― Luster
― Luster
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