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"reading Emma before I watch Emma (2020) dir, Autumn de Wilde :-)" — Feb 25, 2020 11:10PM
"reading Emma before I watch Emma (2020) dir, Autumn de Wilde :-)" — Feb 25, 2020 11:10PM
With women she did things differently, shutting the door more carefully
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“We're going to right the world and live. I mean live our lives the way lives were meant to be lived. With the throat and wrists. With rage and desire, and joy and grief, and love till it hurts, maybe. But goddamn, girl. Live.”
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“Burnings are the work of men. They have always burned us. Now we are burning ourselves. But we're not going to die; we're going to flaunt our scars.”
― Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
― Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
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to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
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“I think about your face when I used to ask you a question, any old bit of nonsense. Your face would be tense, apprehensive, at the pointlessness of my questions. You never realized that I was asking without expecting any answer, just out of a simple need to confirm that you were there with me, my hand seeking yours, seeking any affection, any tenderness for me on your part.”
― Blue Flowers
― Blue Flowers
“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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