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Mary Oliver, from “Blue Iris”, Devotions

- lost and found

A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. That is the truth. What Miss Kaoru says is sweet and innocent talk that only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of men can believe. But, to tell you the truth, I much prefer Miss Kaoru’s sweet and innocent talk over the truth, indeed I do!.

rurouni kenshin in a nutshell: please notice me hitokiri battōsai / kenshin.

                       𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐃                        my life —                                      — has been stained                                                                  𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃                                            ▬▬ι═══════ﺤ                    𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑷𝑬𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑻 𝑷𝑹𝑰𝑽𝑨𝑻𝑬 & 𝑺𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑬𝑷𝑳𝑨𝒀 𝑩𝑳𝑶𝑮              𝑈𝑁𝑆𝐻𝐸𝐴𝑇𝐻𝐸𝐷 𝐵𝑌 𝐶𝐸𝐶𝐸   ❀   𝑃𝐸𝑅𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐴𝐿 𝐵𝐿𝑂𝐺𝑆 𝐷𝑂 𝑁𝑂𝑇 𝐼𝑁𝑇𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑇 !

Rurouni Kenshin - Departure Theme

from the Anime series…

Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.

Kate Jacobs (via quotemadness)

‘ 140 YEARS AGO, IN KYOTO, WITH THE COMING OF THE BLACK SHIPS, THERE EMERGED A WARRIOR CALLED ‘ HITOKIRI BATTOSAI. ‘   FELLING MEN WITH HIS BLOOD-STAINED BLADE, HE CLOSED THE TURBULENTBAKUMATSU ERA                                 AND SLASHED OPEN THE AGE KNOWN AS  ‘ MEIJI ‘ .

HE VANISHED; AND WITH THE FLOW OF YEARS BECAME A LEGEND;  KNOWN SIMPLY AS THE ‘ THE STRONGEST . ‘ 

IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF MEIJI,                            IN THE MIDDLE OF TOKYO…

                                        THIS TALE BEGINS…….  ’

Himura Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin ⚔️