this makes me cry EVERY TIME I READ IT. Even now, a billion years and a billion reads since the first time I read this chapter.
“She would of been a good woman…if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
From A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (by chuuchie)
“I drank our one year out in brine instead / of honey from the seasons of your tongue.”
from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, by Marilyn Hacker (by snippetsandexcerpts)
“…a former beauty queen of Venezuelan proportions…”
from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (by snippetsandexcerpts)
“It must mean something that / our hearts are cut by men like a dress pattern, but sewn by women.”
from The Unbearable Heart, by Kimiko Hahn (by snippetsandexcerpts)




