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“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

"Recreation”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body