“She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.”
— Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
“If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best.”
— Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea (via cactuslungs)
“I don’t think I’ve hated something so much as me wanting you”
— — Jasmine Gibson, from “Hot-Hand Fallacy,” Don’t Let Them See Me Like This
@teslacoils-and-hubris, I can only use ten pictures per post, but what I mean is this; the idea of knowing means more when what you know about them is that they have been hurtful.
"I love you even though you have scars" will never feel like the love carried in the message "I will love you even though you have scarred so many others."
"I will love you although you are hurt" is not the same as "I will love you although you have hurt others, although you deserve to hurt".
The idea of knowing, truly knowing, someone and seeing every sin they have committed and still choosing to believe they can be loved? That they will love you back when you have no proof they have ever loved anyone but themselves?
That is the rawest form of love. That is an affection beyond comprehension. That is holding fate in your hands and rewriting the end of the world to be just a bit kinder. This is the type of love I think your blog represents
“Cupid’s arrows not only had been too sharp for me, but they were barbed and deeply rooted, and I had not yet been able to wrench them from my heart.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Can we love without greed? Without wanting to be first?
Everyone wanted to pour his wine, to sit near him at the table.
Me too. Until he was dead.
Then he was with me all the time.
Marie Howe, from “The Teacher”
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mary oliver, wild geese / @empires / phoebe bridgers, savior complex