Status Updates From Orpheus Builds a Girl

She was like a child in so many ways, so delicate and afraid, but the very thought of her roused hitherto unexplored parts of my physical being as well as my romantic heart… It was as if my grandmother had presented to me the means of my own ruin—and, worse, had told me I could have it. In such ways I thought of the exotic girl: a being to be taken and yet one which possessed so much power.

Yeah man I totally believe your racist grandma came to you as a ghost and said a little Columbian girl who wasnt even born at the time said she is your ‘promised bride’

she taught me that the world was mine; that I was destined for eminence, that great things were owed to me. 😬

so far this is doing a great job at being gross and disturbing because i just woke up to the craziest dream that i could only have had thanks to this book