“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” – Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet.
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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” – Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency.
It wasn’t easy dating fifteen zombies at once. Oh wait, yes it was.
Tina Belcher, summing my life up.
“We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.” – Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh.
“You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages.” – Neil Gaiman, The Sandman.
“You think I’m not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.”
– Margaret Atwood, Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing.
Not the norm on my blog, but how can you deny that?
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.” – Frida Kahlo.
Your stockings make you eminently bangable.
What Craftsmate emailed to me in class today, while he was sitting about two feet away from me.
“Women should be obscene and not heard." – Groucho Marx.
Going down on a girl you care for is like drinking your favorite juice from your favorite cup.
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