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...she sits alone at her table, shuffling her tarot deck compulsively.

Erin Morgenstern, from 'The Night Circus'

“mouth, open like an angel in a cathedral.”

— Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions.

I’m not afraid of you anymore. Because I’m holding the axe.

 You  break  the  rules  and  become  a  hero.  I  do  it,  and  I  become  the  enemy.  

 That                doesn’t                seem                fair.

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

Marian Seldes, referring to Anne Sexton in "Anne Sexton: A Biography"

“Hecate was perfumed with dark spices and unending remorselessness.”

— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Hellish,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

I must become / I must become a menace to my enemies.

— June Jordan, from "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies," Haruko/Love Poems

god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldn’t even hesitate

Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers

I Saw the TV Glow (2024), dir. Jane Schoenbrun.

“Both the bitter and the sweet, both a honey-tongued blessing and a curse.”

— Miklós Radnóti, from All That Still Matters At All: Poems; “A Gentle Breeze,”

Wrath: One day you’ll call me Death. For now Wrath will do.

Emilia: Wrath will do what

And this girl? She is somewhere between this heart & this knife.

— AL-SADDIQ AL-RADDI ⚜️ My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre (Ed. Sarah Maguire), transl. by Mark Ford & Hafiz Kheir, (2014)

Safia Elhillo, from Girls That Never Die: Poems

Mad, really mad, a stranger to herself and others, oblivious to the world, […] around her neck a necklace of curses and tears.

— Simin Behbahani, A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems, transl by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, (1999)

I am She, endowed with secrets of the holy […]

— FOUAD MOHAMMAD FOUAD ⚜️ My Voice: A Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre (Ed. Sarah Maguire), transl. by Samuel Wilder, (2014)

a questionnaire, noor unnahar // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // lamb's head on a plate, viggo johansen // citizen illegal, josé olivarez // grief lessons: four plays by euripides; tr., anne carson

EMILY BADER as QUEEN JANE GREY — 1.05 "I'm Gonna Change the World"

“—a gentle girl with beautiful, soft eyes and a romantic little soul.”

— Colette, from Claudine at School