Dismissing Romeo and Juliet as dumb horny teens is OUT, crying because every attempt these children made to show love, kindness and tolerance in the face of senseless hate only led to more violence and death is IN
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose The Time War
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“There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock. There’s daytime silent when I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There’s shower silent and bath silent and […] car silent and then there’s the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore. That’s how this machine works.”
— Ada Limón, excerpt of “The Quiet Machine”, in Bright Dead Things
“fuck you my child is fine” ma’am your child was a pleasure to have in class
A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Me in the morning: minding my own business, preparing coffee for myself in the kitchen
Little Richard Siken in my head: Every morning the same big and little words, all spelling out desire, all spelling out "You will be alone always and then you will die."
Me: ok