Angela Carter, From "The Lady Of The House Of Love", The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

ELIZABETH OLSEN as CANDY MONTGOMERY Love & Death (2023) — 1.01 The Huntress

you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

-Sylvia Plath

Louise Glück, from "Marriage"; A Village Life (2009)

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“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”

― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

#judging you

horror of being perceived vs desire to be adored

KAREN SIRKO and GRAHAM DUNNE

in Daisy Jones & The Six - Track 4: I Saw the Light

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper