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"Convinced our voices can't be heard We just wanna scream it louder and louder and louder " {muse inspo blog, main: psyduc}

[drogonqueen-archive]

“God, how painful it is, being angry.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“…how much rage was seething inside me.”

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

[lifeinpoetry]

think I’m supposed to want to live but mostly I want to be forgotten. I think freedom might just be another word for disappearance.

— Jody Chan, from “Elegy for the Pre-Packaged Pie I Ate on March 14, 2018,” published in Hot Metal Bridge

[hellishsuggestion]

my anger is not beautiful. it is cold and biting, bitter, all teeth. a wounded dog. i am desperate. thats enough to make me something close to deadly

[yvesolade]

“It’s easier than you would think / to leave & never be found.”

— Laura Villareal, from “Boiling Puffins,” published in Waxwing (via lifeinpoetry)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Lucille Clifton, from The Collected Poems of L. C.; “Leukemia As White Rabbit,”

[hellishbpd]

You ever just sit and realize how fucking angry you are like why do I have so much damn anger, my whole body is just fuckin shaking with such an ugly rage and I can’t get rid of it

[lifeinpoetry]

I do not regret my body

but I regret the hands of most

who have touched it.

— Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from “Transgender Heroic: All This Ridiculous Flesh,” published in The Normal School

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“My anxious heart is eating up my body, eating up my nerves, eating up my brain.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in “Journals,” c. June 1915

[johnanderton]

“If I am anything, it is violence.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘[…] Of the Silence’, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (trans. Yvette Siegert)

[thefoxwrites]

“I open my mouth, hope my mother’s sad heart does not stumble drunk out of me.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink (via aangs)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Composed, commanding, contemptuous, a little melancholy,”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Jacob’s Room,” wr. c. 1922

[capitalletterlyrics]

moments // tove lo

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Anger is funny. It sits snarling in you your whole life just waiting for perfect ironic moments to emerge.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir,” wr. c. 2011

[tcssathompson]

“You sleep coiled; tightly wound. Hands are fists beneath pillows, clenched above cotton sheets. You are at war, even in your dreams.”

— Rest Achilles, the world will wait | p.d (via p.d vulpe)

[cozybug-deactivated20231208]

If there are trees you aren’t alone

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I’d bite myself and take out my feelings with my teeth.”

— Dacia Maraini, tr. by Tim Vode, from “Dreams of Clytemnestra,” wr. c. 1994