violentwavesofemotion:

“I was the moon, wanting to show myself only when the world was black.”

— Andrea O’Brien, from Mothers & Daughters: “Consecration,” c. April 2017

(via babynectar)

bnmxfld:

“How is it possible to miss something you no longer want?”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie // Americanah (via qvotable)

little-miss-hopeless:

“Blood didn’t faze me. I could slash myself open and still / make it to dinner.”

— Brynne Rebele-Henry, from “Autobiography of a Venus figure,” Autobiography of a Wound
(via selfharminlit)

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