FEBRUARY 22. Life is a pitiful thing.
Mary MacLane, from 'I Await the Devil's Coming'
328 notes
·
View notes
To be a woman, young and all alone, is hard - hard!-
is to want things, is to carry a heavy, heavy weight.
Why is this - and what is it that is hurting so? Is it because I am young, or is it because I am alone, or because I am a woman?
Oh, it is a hard and bitter thing to be a woman! And why - why?
Is woman so foul a creature that she must needs be purged by this infinite pain?
I am a woman, ... - a lonely, damned thing filled with the red, red blood of ambition and desire, but afraid to be touched,
for there is no thick skin between myself and the world's fingers.
⸻ ᴹᵃʳʸ ᴹᵃᶜᴸᵃⁿᵉ, ᶠʳᵃᵍᵐᵉⁿᵗˢ ᵒⁿ ᵇᵉⁱⁿᵍ ᵃ ʷᵒᵐᵃⁿ, ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᴵ ᴬʷᵃⁱᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ᴰᵉᵛⁱˡ'ˢ ᶜᵒᵐⁱⁿᵍ.
210 notes
·
View notes
the first page of the original 1901 manuscript of I Await the Devil's Coming
16 notes
·
View notes
Always I wonder, when I die will there be anyone to remember me with love? I know I am not lovable. That I want it so much only makes me less lovable, it seems. But who knows? It may be there will be someone.
Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil’s Coming
78 notes
·
View notes
Sorry not sorry for spamming moon girl I am once again overcome with emotion abt the s1 finale
watch moon girl and devil dinosaur you will not regret it
9 notes
·
View notes
Sometimes I think I am a strange, strange creature—something not of earth, nor yet of heaven, nor of hell. I think at times I am a little thing fallen on the earth by mistake: a thing thrown among foreign, unfitting elements, where there is nothing in touch with it, where life is a continual struggle, where every little door is closed—every Why unanswered, and itself knows not where to lay its head.
Mary MacLane, from 'I Await the Devil's Coming'
429 notes
·
View notes
- Mary Maclane from her memoir “I Await The Devil’s Coming”
9 notes
·
View notes
okay yeah so chainsaw man does, in fact, SLAP
3 notes
·
View notes
I am deadly, deadly tired of my unhappiness
Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil’s Coming
2 notes
·
View notes