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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
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“When Tess kissed the devil, she tasted death on his mouth”
― The Devil Makes Three
― The Devil Makes Three
“(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)”
― Selected Poems
― Selected Poems
“Listen, the heart-shackles are not, as you think, death, illness, pain, unrequited hope, not loneliness, but lassitude, rue, vainglory, fear, anxiety, selfishness”
― Thirst
― Thirst
“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
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