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“I barely knew I had a skin until I met you.”

— Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

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the poppy war by rf kuang/ on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong/ the sword of kaigen by m.l. wang/ vicious by v.e schwab/descendant of the crane by joan he

#parallels

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ocean vuong, night sky with exit wounds

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Adonis, tr. by Samuel Hazo, from “The Crow’s Feather”, The Pages of Day and Night

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Franz Kafka // Peter Wever // Victor Hugo

#parallels

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Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

[Text ID: “They are in love. Fuck the war.”]

#w

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#w

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“She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?

― adiba jaigirdar, the henna wars

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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: 1; Valentine Week, 1850

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what are some quotes/lines from poetry that give you shivers

oh i’ve been hoping someone would ask me this

i always lie when i always say / i didn’t know the gun was loaded. (anger, april bernard)

all the waste you see, / that’s what i did, / none of that happened / to me. i did that. i made that. i killed that. i. (blood mary, april bernard)

say amen. say amend. / say yes. say yes / anyway. (on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong)

it had something to do with death … it had something to do with love. (this room and everything in it, li-young lee)

jolted out of the torpor / characteristic of all of us, she said into my ear / (everyone whispered there) – ‘could one ever describe / this?’ and i answered – ‘i can.’ it was then that / something like a smile slid across what had previously / been just a face. (requiem, anna akhmatova)

dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well. / i do it so it feels like hell. / i do it so it feels real. (lady lazarus, sylvia plath)

sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine. / i couldn’t get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time. (little beast, richard siken)

how much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder? (portrait of fryderyk in shifting light, richard siken)

i sleep. i dream. i make up things that i would never say. i say them very quietly. (meanwhile, richard siken)

no i did not uppercut the sky, / pull back a mess of hot, bright bones (& my mother notices someone else’s blood on my hands, danez smith)

how lonely to be something / that nothing wants to kill. (so i locked myself inside a star for twenty years, jeremy radin)

darkling i listen, and for many a time / i have been half in love with easeful death (ode to a nightingale, john keats)

this is the way the world ends / this is the way the world ends / this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper (the hollow men, t.s. eliot)

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“You hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”

― tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth

#harrow the ninth #locked tomb #gideon the ninth

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“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”

― m.l. rio , if we were villains

#iwwv #if we were villains #words

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“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing."

― benjamin alire saénz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

#aaddtsotu #ari and dante #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

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“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”

―amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war

#tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #words

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“It's amazing how much blue there is in the world if you look. You're different colors of flame. Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things.”

―amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, this is how you lose the time war

#tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #words

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“She’s inching forward. Is there a heterosexual explanation for why she’s inching forward?

― adiba jaigirdar, the henna wars

#the henna wars #thw #words

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“I've never really thought about having a type. I guess my type is....beautiful girl. Which is a lot of them. Most of them? Pretty much all girls.”

― adiba jaigirdar, the henna wars

#the henna wars #words