I learned that being female is as prefab, thoughtless, soulless, and abjectly capitalist as a Big Mac. It’s not important that it’s real. It’s only important that it’s tasty.
“Awake,chaos:we have napped.”
― E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1913-1962
― E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1913-1962
“I am; ravaged, but spirited. Damaged, but still deserving.”
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
“My heart is a cathedral. Widows, ghosts and lovers sit and sing in the dark, arched marrow of me.”
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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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