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queer as folk s01e01, juliusz lewandowski, lukasz stoklosa, károly ferenczy

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— The Incest Diary

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On fathers

Motion Sickness by Pheobe Bridgres/Breaking Bad/Saw/I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died by Sharon Olds/Hannibal/The Pain Scale by Eula Biss/Succession/Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet by Li-Young Lee

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#how. indeed. could it be otherwise?

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The Kiss: A Memoir, Kathryn Harrison

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It’s said that you can never go home again, and it’s true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how hard you try.

Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram  (via justlikereallife)

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—Sharon Olds, from Satan Says

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Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

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Whether he was gentle or rough, whether I was complicit or not, I finally understood that what he did was always a form of violence. He’d been hurting me forever.

Susan Mihalic, Dark Horses

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I wanted to join him in his stall, press my body to his and disappear, like a chameleon. Become part of him, invisible and safe.

Susan Mihalic, Dark Horses

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why do you still have your ropes around my hands?

hieu minh nguyen / sarah lewarn / lia kimura / isabel emrich / taylor swift / phoebe bridgers / rnn90 after mark rubenstein / penelope douglas / katie maria / jakun kujawa via @nailone on dA / rainer maria rilke / kate elizabeth russell / ale casanova / sylvia plath

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Wounded Daughter

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“In the center of his still-life, the gutted ray hung on a hook. The underside was a bloodstained door, the mouth almost pleased. He wanted to forget everything he had seen. All we had done.”

- Greg Wrenn, The Ray.

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-Ritika Jyala, A conversation with my dad after a dance competition or it could be God