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“Who were we when not cleaved to each other? If the Otherworld was a wonder, imagine what we might discover within ourselves - the raw dreams arranging like constellations at the back of our skulls, satin arteries rushing blood to muscles not yet used. It was heady, this idea that I was not yet articulated into being.” 🦚✨

“Never apologize for wishing to devour the world whole, child.”

“She looked like the nostalgia that settles in your ribs at the end of a story you have never read, yet nevertheless know.”

“If you are a figment of my imagination, some wild dream, I hope I never wake.” ✨

“It was the first time I understood that beauty has its own power. Beauty transformed. Its presence could coax ambrosia from sour fruit or take an ordinary, rained-upon sidewalk and dew it with diamonds. I wanted beauty to touch me, change me, declare me worthy of its notice.” ✨

a gothic fairy tale esque story?!?! Count me immediately in 😭😭✨