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“I think I like my brain best
in a bar fight with my heart.
I think I like myself a little broken,
with rough edges, a little harder
to grasp. I like poetry
better than therapy anyway.
The poems never judge me
for healing wrong.”
― Mouthful of Forevers
in a bar fight with my heart.
I think I like myself a little broken,
with rough edges, a little harder
to grasp. I like poetry
better than therapy anyway.
The poems never judge me
for healing wrong.”
― Mouthful of Forevers
“Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.”
― bone
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.”
― bone
“You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.”
― bone
― bone
“I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
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