freya

“i can’t shape my shame into an answer on the spot.”
― silas denver melvin, GRIT: a poetry collection

“He said to me once that one could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed or lust; a pure, painful
and primitive desire, a longing for everything that was not in oneself, a torment of the flesh, that carried one beyond the limits of one’s mind to other times and other places, and even, if one was lucky, to a place where there was no border between oneself and one’s image in the mirror.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

“Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for they crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.”
― Mary Shelley

“Thanks," Berry said. He sipped punch dregs and thought about manhood.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Choir Boy