musings

muse inspo.

[mostruositas]

Her heart was a dark forest, her soul all the wild things which dwelt between the trees.

night curses and other lullabies // Ludovica Elisabetta Enrietti (via mostruositas)

[mostruositas]

I carry in me an unborn sin.

Felix Culpa // Ludovica Elisabetta Enrietti (via mostruositas)

[mostruositas]

How cruel it is, to be forced into being.

A Phoenix’s Birth-day is also her Death-day // Ludovica Elisabetta Enrietti (via mostruositas)

[mostruositas]

Sometimes, I feel more wolf than woman.

The Killing Moon // Ludovica Elisabetta Enrietti (via mostruositas)

[mostruositas]

I, the Abyss.

Depths // Ludovica Elisabetta Enrietti (via mostruositas)

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Ivan Bunin, tr. by Richard Hare, from Dark Avenues & Other Stories; “Musa,”

[finita--la--commedia]

“I leave with you the best part of myself.”

— Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922), from “Albertine Gone”, vol. 6 of “Remembrance of Things Past” (Albertine Disparue, Tome 6 of Á la Recherche du temps perdu), translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff 

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Rebecca Tamás, from Poems; “Witch,” originally published c.  2019

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C. S. Lewis, from “A Grief Observed,” originally published c. 1961

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“The world was emptying itself of meaning. Everything was hollow. Everything was withering.”

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Testaments,” released c. September 2019

[thelaziestmotherfucker]

So what’s your story?

[iredreamer]

[earpwave]

It’s kids like us who’ve been through more than other kids. We’re tougher than other kids. We’re really good builders. We make ourselves really safe. And no one ever gets in.

[lyinginthemeadowes-archive]

“There is a rebel in me – the Shadow-Beast. It is a part of me that refuses to take orders from outside authorities. It refuses to take orders from my conscious will, it threatens the sovereignty of my rulership. It is that part of me that hates constraints of any kind, even those self-imposed. At the least hint of limitations on my time or space by others, it kicks out with both feet. Bolts.”

— Gloria Anzaldúa, from “Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan,” Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (via lifeinpoetry)

[lyinginthemeadowes-archive]

“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”

— B.F. Skinner (via quotemadness)

[lyinginthemeadowes-archive]

“Be it known that you crush heads! Be it known that you devour corpses like a dog! Be it known that your gaze is terrible! Be it known that you lift your terrible gaze! Be it known that you have flashing eyes! Be it known that you are unshakeable and unyielding! Be it known that you always stand triumphant!”

— Enheduanna, excerpt of The Exaltation of Inana ( via antigonick )

[lyinginthemeadowes-archive]

“The moral of the story is, I will gut you if I need to. I will carve my way out with only my teeth.”

— Brenna Twohy, from “Little Red Riding Hood Addresses the Next Wolf,” Forgive Me My Salt (via lifeinpoetry)