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HEAVENLY OR EARTHLY !

( independent & highly selective original character. written by emma. theme under heavy co. )
Women who survive the hate of men are named harlot, witch, Jezebel […] In a different century, they’d have burned me.
— Jeanann Verlee, “Jezebel Revisits the Book of Kings” from Said the Manic to the Muse  (via mythaelogy)
The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Troy (2004)
I heard
a dark prediction
rising in my own body.
— Louise Glück, excerpt of Saint Joan (via antigonick)
I was both the creature who despairs and the God who has always saved him since the beginning of time.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, tr. by Bernard Frechtman, from The Words; The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
(via violentwavesofemotion)