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[jokerlives]

Stigmata cookies.

[mournfulroses]

 Kasa no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Look at my keepsake and think of me," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

[metamorphesque]

“I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.”

— Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky

[terrorignitis]

Others may forget you, but not I. / I am haunted / by your beautiful ghost.

Empress Yamato Hime no Ōkimi (倭姫王)

[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— jay vespertine; from the usual: full moon insanity

[burningdreambanana]

[daffodil--lament]

Then, as the final contradiction, there remains the truth that she made a man of him as fully as man could be made of that stubborn clay. And when that frail manhood is threatened, when her own womanliness demands more than he can give, his malice seeks her destruction. But she is carved from Adam's rib, indestructible as legend, and no man will ever aim his malice with sufficient accuracy to destroy her.

- Vera Caspary, Laura

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her book titled "Deathless," originally published in March 2011

[sumrot]

Now I know something you don’t

[artthatremindsmeofhannibalnbc]

Kate MacDowell, Persephone, 2008  Hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze

[drowsyspace]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a poem titled "Loving The Killer," featured in The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

[literaryvein]

L. V., conversations in the dark

[dilemarhoom]

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice