“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
# rubber gloves
with poetry let's go scrub lord
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
How do you fight a jellyfish!!?
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
My boss called me a scrub lord
fight me, c u c c o
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
—J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew
I hope my battery doesn't die soon D:
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Because I am on a cell phone lol
I will never be able to compete with jellyfish
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go
'Suicide in the Trenches', Siegfried Sassoon
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart / I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars / I am the red man driven from the land, / I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - / And finding only the same old stupid plan / Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak
'Let America Be America Again', Langston Hughes
Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not go gentle into that good night, / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night', Dylan Thomas -
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