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Through writing, I feel power for maybe the first time in my life. I don’t have to say somebody else’s words. I can write my own. I can be myself for once. I like the privacy of it. Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s judging. Nobody’s weighing in.
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“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I learn big girls,
even obese ones,
were once seen as
normal,
preferred,
beautiful.
I can't imagine a world so...
safe.
As I flip through the pages,
I start thinking that if I'd lived back then,
it could have been me
in the pictures,
as sculptures,
as art.”
― Starfish
even obese ones,
were once seen as
normal,
preferred,
beautiful.
I can't imagine a world so...
safe.
As I flip through the pages,
I start thinking that if I'd lived back then,
it could have been me
in the pictures,
as sculptures,
as art.”
― Starfish
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