SAVAGE.

written by michelle. private & selective.

[heireating]

       BOOK STARTERS VOL.38        CAT’S EYE       MARGARET ATWOOD

❛ Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. ❜

❛ This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes. ❜

❛ I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. ❜

❛ Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. ❜

❛ Hatred is easier. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. ❜

❛ Potential has a shelf life. ❜

❛ Don’t move. Stay like that, let me have that. ❜

❛ I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ❜

❛ Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ❜

❛ It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. ❜

❛ We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. ❜

❛ This is what I miss, not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. ❜

❛ I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. ❜

❛ You are amazing. Amazing and agonising and almost lethal. ❜

❛ In my dreams of this city I am always lost. ❜

❛ I don’t know where these feelings have come from, I don’t know what I’ve done. ❜

❛ I am not the centre of your story, you are.  ❜

❛ I’m mad because you’re an asshole. ❜

❛ It’s enormously pleasing to me, walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. ❜

❛ There is never only one of anyone. ❜

❛ I can’t do this without feeling I’m acting. ❜

❛ I am prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence. ❜

❛ I’m losing my appetite for strangers. ❜

❛ You wear your cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. You want it all. ❜

❛ Knowing too much about other people weakens you. You are forced to understand their reasons for doing things. ❜

❛ I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now. ❜

❛ Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing. It’s old light, and there’s not much of it. But it’s enough to see by. ❜

❛ Whoever cares the most will lose. ❜

❛ Young women need unfairness, it’s one of their few defences.  ❜

❛ Time has gone on without you. ❜

[savagestrap]

It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via savagestrap)

[xenosaga]

yall ever be losing your fucking mind but chilling at the same time

[dennyharlow-blog]

DENVER HARLOW     /      1/?       /     do not reblog.

[lifeinpoetry]

Praise this body For nothing has killed it yet Even my own two hands

— Jill Khoury, from “Litany for Survival,” published in Inverted Syntax

[hreoh]

❛ Rise and shine, sleepyhead. It’s time for supper. ❜

ELECTROCUTED,     algid  azures  shoot  cognisant,  as  if  shot,  an  animal  cornered,  swirling  with  a  fog  thicker  than  of  atom.  the  instant  jerking  of  her  body  is  alarming,  breakneck,  perturbed  when  she  sits  up.  fear  fills  vessel  after  so  many  years,  knots  at  her  throat,  down  her  clamped  jugular,  it’s  an  unexpected,  nasty  punch  right  in  the  gut.     ❛   huh  ?   ❜    a  cheap  trick.  the  oldest  trick.  buy  time.  life  drains  from  beaten  angles  of  her  face,  disappears  in  the  ashen  fallout  prickling   besides  flared  nostrils.      ❛   what are you ?  twelve ?   ❜   buy  time.  ghastly  a  ghost  of  a  smirk  cocks  the  edge  of  thin  lips,  false,  arduously  cold.  she  remembers  this  raw  terror,  she  remembers  the  humiliating  despair.       ❛   go  ahead.   ❜    the  soft  bump  of  her  balled   fist  against  his  shoulder.         ❛   i’m  not  hungry.   ❜    

[hreoh]

❛   'S LOTTA SHIT   comin’  out  the  mouth  of  someone  lookin’  like  they  were  just  dragged  straight  outta’  swan’s  pond.   ❜

❛   FUCK OFF, DYKE.   swan  would  run  for  its  life  if  it  saw  me.     ❜

[hreoh]

❛   SO, WHAT DID YOU DO ?   hex  her  ?   no  way  she’d  look  at  you.  you  look  like  a  fucking  PRICK.    ❜

                                                       @endangred.

[heireating]

               GAME STARTERS VOL.3      FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS

❛ I am feared by all – with good reason. ❜

❛ What am I thinking? Oh, that I’d decorate these walls with your guts. ❜

❛ You seem calm given the situation. ❜

❛ You said before you had something taken from you. ❜

❛ That was a long time ago. I don’t pay it much mind anymore. ❜

❛ I haven’t shown my hand - I’ve shown one card. I’ve given my enemies a single, provocative datum upon which to fixate. They have no idea what other cards I’m holding. It’s a strong hand, believe me - I dealt it to myself. ❜

❛ You’re still as perfect as the day we met. ❜

❛ They negotiated. Not out of the kindness of their hearts, as they try to make it seem. Because the calculus of power left no other choice. ❜

❛ Some douchebag coming up talking about the greatest feeling in the world: love. Ain’t that a kick in the head? ❜

❛ Waging war against good people is bad for the soul. ❜

❛ Before going forward, I want to know the past. ❜

❛ Road gets rougher from here. Left marks for you, colours will tell the way - if you’re smart. ❜

❛ I warned you, but you still persisted. ❜

❛ You stand on holy ground, a temple to God’s glory on Earth. But the only use for an animal in a temple is sacrifice. ❜

❛ Maybe you just need to be tested. We’ll see. ❜

❛ Like I said: I’m boring. ❜

❛ Do you always deflect personal questions? ❜

❛ I’m going to kill you SO much. ❜

❛ You already lost. Don’t throw away your dignity.  ❜

❛ Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. ❜

❛ The pain on a scale of one to ten? I’d say it’s a ‘shut the fuck up and fix me’. ❜

❛ You want some weapon schematics? I can hook that shit up! ❜

❛ You didn’t fool me! I just pretended not to know! ❜

❛ Get up without permission, I’ll blast your ass so far through your head, it’ll turn the moon cherry-pie red. ❜

❛ Whoa - This isn’t what I signed up for. ❜

❛ I’ve heard you are a kind of prankster. ❜

❛ The fact that we’re having this conversation means that you failed, right? ❜

❛ Oh great, just when I thought today couldn’t get any worse. ❜

❛ Longing makes the heart grow fonder. ❜

❛ I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me. ❜

[hreoh]

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