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“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off to a sanatorium. I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for, though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so badly they take you away from the known world for wanting it?”
― Her Body and Other Parties
― Her Body and Other Parties
“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it's ugly and distorted; you've become a scorned, unwanted creature.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“But maybe people should be kind without reason.”
― History Is All You Left Me
― History Is All You Left Me
“She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country
“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
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