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“In order to run away with her new love, she stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in the bed of her lover, and set the room on fire to cover their escape”

PETITION TO MAKE A MOVIE/TV SERIES ABOUT JULIE D'AUBIGNY.

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“i pull you onto me by the collar of that grey shirt i’ve always loved— your hands grip my hips and suddenly my white duvet isn’t what i want keeping me warm tonight.”

— e. grin, always kiss me goodnight.

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“The more I look at you, the more I realize how much of silly mess you are. How you still shine brighter than the first light, guiding me through the dark. And how I love you even more, each day as it comes.”

Lukas W. // First light

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“I’m hidden in my words, like scent within a rose’s petal, / Whoever wants to see me, it’s in my words he’ll see me.”

Zeb-un-Nissa, tr. by Paul Smith, from “Makhfi: A Selection of Poems,

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I am just like my mother. I buy books and tell myself that I am buying wisdom and at the end of my life, I own a house full of books. When I was little, I thought that the water came out of the showerhead because it was crying. This is because I heard my mother crying and thought it was the showerhead

Ken Chen, “Essay on Crying at Night,” Juvenilia