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“In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the very late blood of cities, with the hysteria of the end of the world.”
― Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
― Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
“When Tess kissed the devil, she tasted death on his mouth”
― The Devil Makes Three
― The Devil Makes Three
“To dictate definition is to wield cultural power”
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“By you, I am forever undone.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“if you live simply and with a lyrical heart
in the cumbered neighborhoods or even,
as Mozart sometimes managed to, in a palace,
offering tune after tune after tune,
making some hard-hearted prince
prudent and kind, just by being happy”
― Thirst
in the cumbered neighborhoods or even,
as Mozart sometimes managed to, in a palace,
offering tune after tune after tune,
making some hard-hearted prince
prudent and kind, just by being happy”
― Thirst
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