Professional Bone-Haver

horror movies > poetry and stuff https://letterboxd.com/evilundead/

[aikafee]

god, i worry my blood is tinted with sin and filth. i worry my cuts bleed the pulp of the eve's apple

[rottenbones0]

[She bites God in the wrist] - stage direction from Antonin Artaud's The Jet of Blood

Image: The Conjuring 2 (2016)

[rottenbones0]

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, from Being and Nothingness

Image: Spencer (2021)

[rottenbones0]

“But only a mother can walk

with the weight

of a second beating heart.”

- Ocean Vuong, from Headfirst

Image: Lady Bird (2017)

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

I was born to sit in a cafe doing fuck all

[rottenbones0]

i was born to lie in my bed doing fuck all

[rottenbones0]

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?” - Haruki Murakami, from Norwegian Wood

Image: All Of Us Strangers (2023)

[rottenbones0]

“I am beginning to despair and can see only two choices: either go mad or turn holy” Adélia Prado, from DENOUNCEMENT

Image: The VVitch (2015)

[rottenbones0]

“Find god in the line of your jaw and break it” - Kanika Lawton, from ‘Girl as Burning,’ Wildfire Heart

Image: Dogtooth (2009)

[rottenbones0]

“I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence” - José Olivarez, from ‘Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains,’ Citizen Illegal

Image: Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

[rottenbones0]

“When is a monster not a monster?

Oh, when you love it.

Oh when you used to sing it to sleep."

 - Caitlyn Siehl, from Start Here

Image: Bones And All (2022)

[rottenbones0]

“You won't even remember that you're dying.” - I Saw The TV Glow (2024), written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Image: I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

[rottenbones0]

“Time wasn't right. It was moving too fast. And then I was 19. And then I was 20. I felt like one of those dolls asleep in the supermarket. Stuffed. And then I was 21. Like chapters skipped over on a DVD. I told myself, "This isn't normal. This isn't normal. This isn't how life is supposed to feel."” - I Saw The TV Glow (2024), written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Image: I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

[rottenbones0]

“What if she was right? What if I was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful? Buried alive and suffocating to death on the other side of a television screen?” - I Saw The TV Glow (2024), written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun

Image: The Blue Bird (1976)

[rottenbones0]

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.” - Flannery O’Connor, from A Temple of the Holy Ghost

Image: Immaculate (2024)

[rottenbones0]

"I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him."

[ryebreadgf]

YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK! YOU CAN BITE AND SCRATCH AND BEG BUT YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!

[rottenbones0]

“To be alive!

Not just the carcass

But the spark.

That is crudely put, but…

If we’re not supposed

To dance, 

Why all this music?” 

- Gregory Orr, from To Be Alive

Image: Dinner In America (2020)