collection of quotes

this is just a blog with quotes from media that just like to live in my head.

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• “ self-awareness really doesn’t mean shit, though. it is, in fact, little more than psychological masturbation, and has about the same net worth as a wad of semen in a handful of crumpled tissues. no cockroach ever desired not to be a cockroach, just because it knew it was a cockroach.” - Dead Inside, Chandler Morrison

• “i want death neither behind nor in front, of me, but rather around me and within me. - Dead Inside, Chandler Morrison

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• “she said, ‘be good with me, i grow

    so tired for shame’s sake, i shall die

if you say nothing:’ even so.

    and she is dead now, and shame put by.” 

- The Leper - Poems and Ballads, Algernon Charles Swinburne

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• “she had the human look of a domesticated animal.” - Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica 

• “naming children after their parents is stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to. ” - Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica 

• “i don’t get why a person’s smile is considered attractive. when someone smiles,  they’re showing their skeleton.” - Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica 

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• “ i’m thinking of ending things. once this thought arrives, it stays. it sticks. it lingers. it dominates. there’s not much i can do about it. trust me. it doesn’t go away. it’s there whether i like it or not. it’s there when i eat. when i go to bed. it’s there when i sleep. it’s there when i wake up. it’s always there. always.” - I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Lain Reid

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• “the death of a woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.” - Edgar Allen Poe

[i’ll at more at some point.]