For Long So Long, I Wanted My Silhouette To Be On A Canvas, With Curated Hues And Forms. I Wanted To

You should have seen by the look in my eyes

that there was somethin' missin'.

Cigarettes After Sex - Keep On Loving You

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I will leave such an imprint on your heart that anyone you entertain after me will have to know me in order to understand you.

Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

{Hannah Green, from "Are you still hungry, Mother?"/ Anne Carson/Sam Gordon, "A Mother's Hate"/ Ella Wilson/ Joan Tierney/ Ella Wilson/ Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Unknown/ Nayyirah Waheed/ Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater”/ John Green, Turtles All the Way Down/ Safia Elhillo, "an inheritance," published in Narrative Northeast/ Annie Ernaux, from I Remain in Darkness/ Poplar Street by Chen Chen/ Unknown/ Tumblr User: @inkskinned/ Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011/ Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom}

obsessed with Her.