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Open Throat
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I think I’m kind of a poet because when I finally find a deer left behind by a herd its leg broken and stuck in a rock even though I know I shouldn’t know it’ll make the meat spoil quicker I eat the heart first
“It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world.”
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“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― The Robber Bride
― The Robber Bride
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
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