“that love was a
distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power
of human greed.”
― Lapvona
distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power
of human greed.”
― Lapvona
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“When God gives you more than you can tolerate, you turn to instinct. And instinct is a force beyond anyone’s control.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?”
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