October 2009
308 posts
September 2009
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Love me because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of...
– Benjamin Britten
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real...
– Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Love takes hostages,
gives them pain.
gives someone the power to
hurt you again and again
but they don’t care.
And it kicks so hard,
it breaks your bones.
Cuts so deep
it hits your soul.
Tears your skin and
makes your blood flow.
It’s better that you know,
That love is hard.
{James Morrison, Love is Hard}
"The world is changed because you are made of...
{If someone wrote such poetry for me, if their lips danced to such words, I would never leave their side. For they would know my soul.}
You could ink yourself until everyone knows all the things you love. You could wear uniforms that gave you all the authority in the world. Lose weight until there was nothing left. Paint the face. Suck in your gut.
But in the dark, stripped down to your bones, all that remains is you.
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