“I Suffer Because Of Myself. It Is My Own Soul All The Time That Is Bothering Me.”

"You are the altar cup and from this / I do fill my mouth... Martyr, my religion is love, is you."

Anne Sexton, "Sweeney"

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

— Kiera Cass, The One

Elektra, Sophokles tr. Anne Carson // Arcane (2021) // What Could Have Been, Sting // Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) // Great Expectations, Charles Dickens // Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel // The Cruel Prince, Holly Black // The Sandman (2022) // Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

adrienne rich, of women born: motherhood as experience and institution / alexandra levasseur - body of land collection, 2015 / ana teresa barboza - bordados collection, 2004 / margaret atwood, “europe on $5 a day” / tracey emin - it was all too much, 2018 / clarice lispector, a breath of life / gérard lartigue- femme bougie, 2018 / jenefer schute, life-size / louise bourgeois - i DISTANCE myself from myself, 2010 / wayne koestenbaum, “figure” / henrik uldalen - caries and surge, 2017 / andrés cerpa, “the vault” / jennifer’s body (2009) / enrico robusti- food, sex, & irony collection, 2014 / sylvia plath, the bell jar

i distance myself from myself

“Are you scared of the dark?” he asks me. I say, “Why would I be scared of what is part of me?”

— something lurks inside me, and it will make or wreck me. t.b. (via lewiscarol)

Rumi, from Bittersweet (tr. by Fereydoun Kia & Deepak Chopra)

Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House

“Rage, maybe rage would lift me up, make me stand, make me walk—”

— Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (via antigonick)

“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

I Have Never Been Forgiven for not Understanding

You Shall Know our Velocity!, Dave Eggers// @heartmush // "Outbreaks", Kitchen McKeown// "Cures for Shame", Rookiemag// The Allure of Shame, John Dalton// "Outbound", Hieu Minh Nguyen// Visual Overdose//