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[houseofoctober]

“It’s a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.”

— Mary Shelley

[caitlinvee]

[wnq-quotes]

“Listen — are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?”

—

Mary Oliver, Have You Ever Tried To Enter The Long Black Branches

Read more at wordsnquotes

[caitlinvee]

Mother & son

[caitlinvee]

He needed me to keep him warm and loved and solidly tethered to Earth. He needed his work to keep him sane. I couldn't help with that part. I could only look on and feel troubled that our life was burdened by worry at a time when we should be so happy.

Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

[word-stuck]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.—Where is Love to-day?

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia Dickinson c. November 1864 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[caitlinvee]

With my tattoos, I get to say, these are choices I make for my body, with full-throated consent. This is how I mark myself. This is how I take my body back.

Roxane Gay, Hunger

[the-bookshop]

Source.

[rioteyre-blog]

found my mom’s old polish copies of anne of green gables and they’re beautiful

[coocoolah-deactivated20190601]

We must complain. There is a lot to complain about. […] If they hadn’t complained some of us wouldn’t be here. If we don’t complain some of us won’t be here.

Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Complaint” (via coocoolah)

[cabinporn]

A-frame near June Lake, California

Submitted by Matt Wier

[pagewoman]

Scottish wildcat and kitten

[caitlinvee]

I think the figures of the strange and stranger have something to offer in this work.  I mean, think about it: Rape is sensationalized as an act of violence perpetuated in spectacularly violent ways by a strange man against a vulnerable woman. The rapist is always figured as a stranger, though we know that a large percentage of rape and sexualized violence is done by people we know. By an early age I had learned to fear the man following me in his car; but no one taught me that I might have to fear people I knew.

Erin Wunker, Notes from a Feminist Killjoy

[caitlinvee]

i need an anti-hero.

INFJ: What is it going to take for me to finally stop having hope?

[caitlinvee]

11/05/2016

[caitlinvee]

ISTJ: *offering hand in support* If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that when you get knocked down, you have to get back up again.

INFJ: *singing* I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN! YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!@!