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she’d never seen a real live penis, from these books she knew an absolute ton about stiff members, turgid shafts, and throbbing spears.
She didn’t know people could stop loving you. She’d thought friendship was permanent, like matter.
She wore flowery dresses and high heels when not working. She liked to say she was smashing the patriarchy by not conforming to socio-cultural standards of skeletal female beauty
didactic
I like this word
“I just wanted him to love me. Like. So. Fucking. Bad. But he didn’t. He doesn’t.
💔💔
Sehnsucht. They say it doesn’t translate well to English but the closest we get is: inconsolable longing.”
hiraeth. She’d said it was a Welsh word that meant homesickness for a home you can never return to or that never was.
I feel this a lot.
primordial,
this is my least favorite word. It feels gross for no particular reason, and It comes up way more than it needs to.
Jocundity, n. uninhibited merriment
She didn’t understand the preoccupation with leaving home, where it was safe and everyone you loved was within earshot.
She didn’t know what people were supposed to do with the leftover love that no one wanted anymore.
He was used to the disproportionate physical reactions he had to Sebastian’s words.
It’s cockapalooza!
But I kind of knew before that even, kept wondering if I was gay or straight, kept going back and forth, totally confused, neither felt right, then I realized there’s that B. In LGBTQ, you know?
Once again, she was faced with the fact that love didn’t always go two ways.
Life was a terrible place to live.
but I feel like I love him too much. Like it makes my chest kill.”
Sometimes platonic loves are the most profound.
April 🩷
And boy, it’s been a long time since I’ve been hugged by a mother,
I do believe now that when the world tips over, joy spills out with all the sorrow.
