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forgive me if i'm being presumptuous: i feel this collection is about more than Dogs.

"He doesn't even understand it."

i am going to blow ur phone up about this one i'm sorry it's what i was born and bred to do. no me without dog motif, more than u know

okayyyyyy perhaps i can become a general/contemp fantasy enjoyer

BOOM another one

i was a little put off by the premise and the many, many ways it could fall into cliched obscurity but my god, i'm so interested. kinda blowing it out of the water so far

thought maybe i'd be spared but i'm ugly crying through this oh my god

YUPPPPP MITSKI REFERENCE IKTR

saying nothing new here but oh boy does this guy fucking rock

breaking my own heart on purpose w this one. miss u big guy

POEM OF THE DAY IS KAVEH AKBAR IKTR!!!!!!!! hurts so good. Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog i love you i love you (2 fav parts below)

"you send a picture and I do not say,
It just looks like a tree
or Another of God's secrets
wasted on me."

"In the evening of life,
we will be judged on love alone.
Some petrified dog. Table bread,
a painted doorway."

"a wind comes up to me in the empty morning like someone i've met before or seen before but don't know, and a feeling comes over me. it is sadness. not a sadness, but sadness. all of it. everything in me is sad and everything around me is a part of it. the cracked pavement, the moon, the abandoned cars, the gravity that holds them to the road. it is total."

"rectification through reduction. i could picture the empty cities, the reclaimed land. that was the future. this is now. the end of the world looks exactly the way you remember. don't try to picture the apocalypse. everything is the same."

"'but louis,' lestat was saying softly. 'how can you be as you are, how can you stand it?' he was looking up at me, his mouth in that same grimace, his face wet with tears. 'tell me louis, help me to understand! how can you understand it all, how can you endure?'"

yes. how indeed.

funnily enough i do, in fact, relate not only to louis but also . madeleine -_-

"this love affair with damnation" !!!!!!!!! oh i love vampires

OUUUUUU ANNE RICE YOU MANIAC!!!!!!!
we are.. So Back

fingers crossed i can make it through this one before it lapses T_T

this is so tea i have no idea where to even start. girl. louis's experience in the cathedral...i go through that every day btw

taking some liberties with how far i got bc i forgot to check before i left for work this morning...gotta get in gear this is overdue T_T

this is so sweet :']

u know what. perhaps i am missing the point a little bit. putting down my pitchfork and taking a moment. i am rlly enjoying it--it's just hard to get behind All Of That... but there is very likely a chance the nausea is an intended effect. to be determined

hey anne please stop it's getting really fucking weird!!!!!!!! stop!!!!!!! anne rice why are you writing like this about a child!!!!!!!

anne rice why would you say that about a child

"i closed my eyes and heard the wind and the sound of water flowing softly, swiftly down the river. it was enough, for one moment. and i knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and i would fly after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under god, to get it back."

i keep almost tearing up just bc i love this guy so much. reads just like the show that raised me--good eats. alton brown never change ur kindof father to me

got through the parts that proved directly relevant to ai/internet doomerism 4 project and then my hold lapsed so!!! will return in approx 12 weeks when i get it again

"i saw myself turning on a knife then, languishing in a day-to-day suffering which i found as necessary as penance from the confessional"
heyyyyyy so. it might seem crazy what i'm about to say

"despite everything, the world had not ended yet. what was the reflex that made it catch itself? what was the balance it regained?

you'll be nostalgic for this too, if you make it."

will i stop updating with quotes i find notable . no. please mind your business. this isn't even all of them

"the people who lived in the portal were often compared to those legendary experiment rats who kept hitting a button over and over to get a pellet. but at least the rats were getting a pellet, or the hope of a pellet, or the memory of a pellet. when we hit the button, all we were getting was to be more of a rat."

"'i know what you're going through' she said silently to the baby, 'but sometimes you'll be scrolling along and NASA will post a picture of the stars.'"

i have. So Many Thoughts And Emotions About This