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‘Black butterflies,’ he says softly. He peers at the scorched page as if trying to read it, then carefully places it in his breast pocket. ‘Burnt fragments of poetry and art catching in people’s hair.’
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“When I am in pain I become childlike—I reach for comforting foods, I curl myself into a ball. I have no control over my body so I have no choice but to surrender to it.”
― Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness
― Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
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“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
September Readalong of Bellman & Black #bellmanandblackalong
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