Kelt.Marie

“I won’t lie this plague of gratitude is hard bear / I was comfortable in my native pessimism / not this spun-sugar fantasy / last night I made actual cake / there were no worms in the flour no bloody whirls in the eggs / I always wanted to be a saint / but I thought I’d be one of the miserable ones / sainted by pain / burnt alive inside a brazen bull / instead I weep openly at obnoxious beauty / cello music comes in from blocks away and I lose it completely / is there a word for these fits of incomprehensible delight / I said it last night when my mouth was full of cake”
― Kaveh Akbar

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
― Clive Barker