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“The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable

“Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed”
― Nayyirah Waheed