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ilcosmodiseiya:

“(…) I have chosen to build a world according to a law that I believe to be just. And choosing what you call individual evil as a reaction to universal evil (…), you might be tempted to destroy the world that I am creating. Then we shall be enemies. But (…) I too love you, Morgane. More than anything else in the world. And this, in the uncertainty of what is yet to come, will always be true.”

– Michel Rio, Morgane.

I want too much, she thought. I want everything. I want day and night, sleeping and waking, world without end, amen. Someone warned her once that it was fatal to tell a man you loved him. ‘What I really want,’ she said, ‘deep down, is stillness, safety. The feeling you’d always be there. I love you. I think I must have loved you without knowing it all my life.’

Daphne Du Maurier, Don’t Look Now & Other Stories
(via the-book-diaries)

Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.

Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via sealedtome)

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i can’t uncouple these in my mind

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