Chiddywrites:

This new calm was becoming unsettling.

mikky ekko // we must be killers

               a WOLF is a WOLF.

                                               even in a CAGE.

                                                                         even dressed in SILK.

nawal el saadawi, ‘woman at point zero’

[ID: “'My father was no different from a king except for one thing.’ ‘And what is that?’ ‘He never taught me to kill. He left me to learn it alone as I went through life.’ ‘Did life teach you to kill?’ 'Of course it did.'” end ID]

hubris is sexy actually

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?

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)

he’s a boy waiting for tragedy with a mouthful of diamond teeth

thoughts #297 | r.m (via rmeisel)