“Like any girl, I pulled myself into shreds to test the rumor that something with blood like mine could be halved and still whole. And what did I learn?”
— Franny Choi, Perihelion: A History of Touch (via savitris)
Genuinely the posts where people collate and juxtapose a bunch of different media texts to convey an idea with all the citations at the bottom are the best thing to have come out of this site in the entire eight years I’ve been on here. It’s so sexy. Intertextuality is genuinely one of the things that I go feral for without hesitation and I adore it it’s such a good use of the medium I hope it never stops
By Ken Geiger.
Jorby dropping the real truths
“You could ask him to kill for you & he would, though you never do because you like how he instinctively moves to protect you without you saying anything.”
— This man has done bad things; they’ve nested in his bones, they make him move like his love for you does. (via crowbound)
“Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)
“darling, i don’t want you to love me. / i want you to be terrified.”
— Salma Deera, from “girls who don’t care for being touched,” Letters From Medea
(via lifeinpoetry)
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…”
— Karen Marie Moning (via quotemadness)