Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno
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Chore Scorpion: I come from the toughest meanest place you can imagine. I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but It seems that when life gets hard I have to get harder to match.
this is how I feel
Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, tr. by Anne Carson [ID in alt text]
And so I kept trying and trying and trying, because at the end of the day, when the doors are sealed, "at least I tried” is better than "what if I had tried?"
– Abdulsamad S. M.
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“I’m jealous of people who do what they want because I do what I must, and it’s rarely what I want.”
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— Audrey Niffenegger, from ‘The Time Traveller's Wife’ (via lunamonchtuna)
Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
29 August 1904 James Joyce to Nora Barnacle Joyce Letters of James Joyce [originally published 1966]
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Janet Fitch, from White Oleander