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“Sloane was beautiful. Fact.
I’d been physically attracted to her since the moment we met.
Also fact.
”

“Ouch. Treat a girl to a luxury spa and get verbally attacked in return. Decorum doesn’t exist anymore.”

it's what you deserve GO SLOAN

“You’re notorious for turning down men.”
“Lucky me. Maybe they’ll get the hint and leave me alone.”

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I LOVE SLOAN

I FINALLY GOT IT THERE WILL BE NO SLEEPING TONIGHT IM READY TO HATE

i need an angsty driven book about Ares and Aphrodite I BEG oricum noapte buna mincad ochii n gura ceva bizar ca e devreme

“Blood of the Gods hum through me. I am no mere mortal, mother.”

this is how i will be replying to any compliments from now on

“He was enamored by the royal mortal, Princess of Argos. Unable to gain access to her through the guarded tower, he came to her in the form of golden rain and leaked through the roof. ”

this man never fails to surprise me😀

“She wondered what it was like for someone to look at her in adoration. Medusa had long forgotten. Or had she ever truly known? She had no recollection of being admired, overcome by the gluttonous needs of another. ”

ce ar fi sa adaug la biblioteca citit manhwa urile NESIMTITE PE CARE BITANGA DE MINE LE A CITIT😊

current obsession: novel covers using historical paintings 🙂‍↕️🫶

“You take hold of your happiness and enjoy it when it is with you. You experience it with gratitude, knowing nothing lasts. ”

“If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false—that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased—I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can’t, I throw everything away.” ”

“Sometimes I’m real and sometimes I’m not real. Sometimes I’m alienated from my true nature and sometimes I am my true nature. I don’t like the alienation, but to feel it, and then to find it lifted, I wonder if that is valuable too. To know the difference, to not stay stuck.”

“There is something nice about having this access to the natural world, to remembering that it can have value in a work of fiction, just as it does in our lives. What if a work of fiction simply ended with pages and pages of descriptions of plants? If it doesn’t already exist, I think I must sit down and write it.”

“We see what surrounds the characters before we see them, we see them get wet. And though there will not be quite this focus on rain again, it will rain through the whole novel.”

“From Sheila Heti’s Motherhood: “Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one’s personality.” A personality, sometimes it is a burden. How nice it can feel to set it down. For it to momentarily disappear. Maybe this is partly what is meant by letting go of the self. It is one way we can do it”

Excerpt From
A Horse at Night
Amina Cain
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“ Which parts are able to come forward, to exist actively, and which stay latent? If I lived differently, would different aspects of my self come to the foreground? Or is the self—the true self—more dominant than behavior, than habits?”

“It makes me consider what I believe about myself too, and how it might be different from what I actually am, about that distance between what I think and feel and what I sometimes do. The moments in which I act out my anger, for instance. Something happens and I see that I have a choice to get angry or not get angry. If I choose the anger, I am sometimes performing it

“The essential thing was that the string, the weave that now supported me, should hold.” In our own lives, we never know when the weave that supports us, and our sense of wellbeing, will snap, and what the new support will be. We only know that things change.”

“Now that I have said so much about it, I’m thinking more about who gets to relax, and when, for it is a luxury. If you are someone who relaxes much of the time, maybe you should give some of it away.”

“The same thing happens with reading, of course. When one closes a book it doesn’t mean the feeling of the book closes too.”

“she becomes a witch, or she becomes herself as a witch. There is something calming about that, to give up a charade of what you are supposed to be, of what you have tried, unsuccessfully, to be your whole life; to take off those obligations, setting them down beside you”

“The distance can’t be crossed anymore; it is too great. And the memory of your former closeness will be comforting, or you will feel grief. Anything is possible. What does it mean to know someone? What does it mean to be close, or to be distant? And is there a part of you that can still be close in the midst of distance?”

“Too much time alone is just as risky as not enough, for it allows us to sink into our cyclical patterns of thought and narrative. We need someone to hold up a mirror so we can see who we are when we are taken outside of our heads. We need to hear others’ thoughts too.”

pauza de masa

“Why are figures in paintings so often gesturing to what’s out of view?”

im in love

“I’d never thought of it in that way, though now it seems obvious.”

“My loss of authenticity is related to change, to how, as I’ve gotten older, I seem to have become a different person. In a way I have become strange to myself, and so how I am and feel around others has also been destabilized. I have more fears than I had when I was younger; I am more rigid; and there has been a loss too of the freedom I once felt, when the world seemed entirely open, and utterly beautiful.”

“In their relationship to Madame, they cannot be their authentic selves. Their identities hinge upon their service to her, always.”