marjuice

[marjuiced]

men should start in jail and prove their way out.

[marjuiced]

every mouth you’ve ever kissed

was just practice

all the bodies you’ve ever undressed

and ploughed in to

were preparing you for me.

i don’t mind tasting them in the

memory of your mouth

they were a long hall way

a door half open

a single suit case still on the conveyor belt

was it a long journey?

did it take you long to find me?

you’re here now,

welcome home.

warsan shire, welcome home (2011)

[marjuiced]

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

ray bradbury, fahrenheit 451

[marjuiced]

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

virginia woolf, a room of one’s own (1929)

[marjuiced]

the fastest way to lose interest in a man is to ask him about politics

[marjuiced]

Hindi mo pwedeng mahalin ang isang tao nang hindi mo minamahal ang hilaga, silangan, timog at kanluran ng kanyang paniniwala.

Ricky Lee, Para Kay B (2008)

[marjuiced]

Based on a true story and set in the waning days of the Marcos dictatorship, Liway is told from the point of view of Dakip, a boy living in a prison camp housing both criminals and members of the New People's Army.

Even as conditions in the camp become progressively more difficult, his mother tries her best to shield him from the trauma of a political prisoner's life and to give him a normal life, telling him stories based on Philippine mythology and folklore. One of these stories is about Liway, the guardian diwata of Mount Kanlaon, a fictionalized version of her own story in the resistance against the Marcos dictatorship.

As the dictatorship becomes more unstable and their lives become more uncertain, Dakip's mother has to weigh his best interests against the prospect of never seeing each other again.

[marjuiced]

More important, this means she has convinced her parents of the seriousness of her commitment to the workers and peasants cause, a commitment which requires all sorts of behavior previously way beyond the bounds of respectable womanhood. She is a woman who has discovered the exalting realm of responsibility, a woman fully engaged in the making of history.

Lorena Barros, Liberated Women (1970)

[marjuiced]

The new Filipina is one who can stay whole days and nights with striking workers, learning from them the social realities which her bourgeois education has kept from her.

[marjuiced]

she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

elizabeth gaskell, cranford (1853, uk)

[marjuiced]

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

[marjuiced]

There’s no shame in being different. The moon doesn’t try to outshine the sun. It glows in its own hour.

icarian, metaphoric haven (2025)

[marjuiced]

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Mahmoud Darwish

[marjuiced]

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

Ovid, Metamorphoses

[marjuiced]

There remained but little more to climb till they would touch earth's surface, when in fear he might again lose her, and anxious for another look at her, he turned his eyes so he could gaze upon her.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

[marjuiced]

you’re not failing by not living up to someone’s expectation of you. dearest, their perception of who you are is not your responsibility.

icarian, metaphoric haven (2025)

[marjuiced]

you're not failing just because you can't live up to someone's expectations of you. dearest, it's not your responsibility to become someone else's idea of who you should be.

icarian, metaphoric haven (2025)