Tyler

“Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>