Status Updates From Un asesino en las puertas

“Love. I sigh. Love is joy coupled with misery, elation bound to despair. It is a fire that beckons me gently and then burns when I get too close. I hate love. I yearn for it. And it drives me mad.”

same laia :/ #felt

HELENE. I NEED YOU TO LOCK IN YO. LIKE I GET YOU WANNA SHOW YOU’RE STRONG AND WOMAN POWER AND YOUR TITLE AND RANK AND STATUS BUT HELLO PLEASE BE SMART YOU ARE SMART BE SMARTER OMMGGG

“The Scholars around us scatter, running every which way, driven by a fear that’s been hammered into our bones. Always us! Our dignity, shredded, our families annihilated, our children torn from their parents. Our blood soaking the dirt. What sin was so great that scholars must pay, with every generation, with the only thing we have left: our lives.”

I’M SCREAAMINGGG

“I turned to practicalities. They are easier to speak of than this feeling in my chest, like my heart is being carved out of me and lit on fire.”