I hope the thought of me makes your skin crawl.
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Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.
I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’
written in 1949 at age 17 (via learningfromthehands)
They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
I poured everything I had into you and you were still empty.
She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
I shouldn’t be the superhero’s girlfriend, I should be the superhero.
When the blood of your veins returns to the sea and the dust of your bones returns to the ground, maybe then will you remember that this earth does not belong to you, you belong to this earth.