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“But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted rather to feel something on Christmas day. The real question would have been, ‘Dear Claudia, what experience would you like on Christmas?’”
— Dec 11, 2023 05:32PM
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ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚
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“And I believe our sorrow was the more intense because nobody else seemed to share it. They were disgusted, amused, shocked, outraged, or even excited by the story. But we listened for the one who would say, “Poor little girl," or, "Poor baby," but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils.”
— Dec 04, 2024 05:04PM
ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚
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“They were through with lust and lactation, beyond tears and terror.… They were old enough to be irritable when and where they chose, tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain. They were, in fact and at last, free.“
— Dec 14, 2023 08:27PM
ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚
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“‘What for? He wasn't nowhere around when you was born. Your mama didn't name you nothing. The nine days wasn't up before she throwed you on the junk heap. When got you I named you myself on the ninth day. You named after my dead brother. Charles Breedlove. A good man. Ain't no Samson never come to no good end.’”
— Dec 11, 2023 08:11PM
ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚
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“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in history of human thought….
“She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen.”
— Dec 11, 2023 07:55PM
“She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen.”
ariel *ੈ✩‧₊˚
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“An escapade of drunkenness, no matter how routine, had its own ceremonial close. They gave substance to the minutes and hours otherwise dim and unrecalled. They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms. In these violent breaks in routine that were themselves routine, she could display the style and imagination of what she believed to be her own true self.”
— Dec 11, 2023 05:54PM
