It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?
ginger // the front bottoms
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere!
Cinderella’s Prince (Into the Woods)
Cleaning the air, I breathed in the smoke.
You may try, but you cannot deny the truth that is your family.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
And these are my vices: impatience, bad temper, wine, the more than occasional cigarette, an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed. a hunger that isn’t hunger but something like fear…
Cecilia Woloch, from “Fireflies,” Carpathia (via lifeinpoetry)
the seven deadly sins | envy
a sad or resentful covetousness towards the traits or possessions of someone else.
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I refuse to die ordinary.
tenx (via wnq-writers)