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"oh lavyrle that sentence was perhaps your FINEST work I’m on the brink— 😭" — Feb 19, 2026 05:38PM
"oh lavyrle that sentence was perhaps your FINEST work I’m on the brink— 😭" — Feb 19, 2026 05:38PM
4 It seems obvious to say, and yet worth saying, that most of these moments of violence are due to the colonialist’s instinct to transport, cage, and own what is fundamentally unownable: a wild animal, or even nature itself.
“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
― The Power
― The Power
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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