“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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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)
i can’t uncouple these in my mind
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If I let him do this to me, what else will I allow? Anything, anything, anything.
Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
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I was born with a knife in my heart.
Channing M (via mcclaren-c)
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
— Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018)
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.”
— Alexandra Bracken
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