• swallow sadness long enough and it becomes poison

   

   

  all you other people without hearts seem to be doing just fine so i thought i'd join you in the land of the dead-eyed

   

   

   

  --chillin' on the dock of mnemosyne, would i miss it instead if i dove into lethe? ondine doesn't know.

   

   

  that's kinda the point

   

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  "How terrible to live where a word can never be unspoken and a gesture can never be unmade.”

   

   

• I like your quote. :)

  gipsiesolon November 16, 2016   Link

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    Thank you; it's from the Jean Giraudoux play Ondine, which was my favorite of all the plays I had to read in high school, and expresses very well what it is like to feel out of place in the world. There's a good synopsis on wikipedia if you aren't into reading the whole thing

    artemisagroteraon December 16, 2016  

    I enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing.

    gipsiesolon January 06, 2017  

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