edith blackwell

❝ she knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. how she had wrung out her girlhood like a death.

[teachersgazebo-deactivated20200]

“She has a mouth like unswept glass—-when you least expect it she cuts you.”

Junot Diaz, “Otravida, Otravez (via kylelucia)

[pt-anderson]

“I don’t. You’re right.” — Phantom Thread (2017, dir. P.T. Anderson)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I am troubled and harsh and hopeless. Though I have love inside me. But I don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it scratches like barbs.

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Elizabeth Lowe, from Água Viva / The Stream of Life (via violentwavesofemotion)

[soierose]

brock collection fw18

[tyrantsuggestion]

[heavenhillgirl]

Queen Sugar

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I put on some music, Billie Holiday. Her voice flooded the room, climbed up the walls, spilled over the carpet, caressed me.  I smoked. I fixed a Bloody Mary and took it with me into the bathroom. I poured bath oil into the tub and let the hot water run. I painted my nails a dark red.

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[filmgifs]

Death Becomes Her (1992) dir. Robert Zemeckis

[escapetomovies]

Mistress America  2015

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Her ancient gestures, her perfume, the infinite intimacy of her rage,

Christina Peri-Rossi, tr. by Carol Thickstunt, from “The Bacchante,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[alina-aleksanders]

[plasticblisss]

Scarface