"We cannot wait / for angels. We’ll be our own gods now."

— Nancy Reddy, from “Ex Machina,” Double Jinx: Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

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"Inside me outside me–
crazed? celestial? demonic? divine?"

— Pauline Hanson, from Across Countries of Anywhere (via princess-volchitsa)

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"I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I am a lion, that I will chase them. I will not deny I have lions in me. I am the monster in the wood. I have wonders in my house of sugar. I have parts of myself I do not yet understand."

— Catherynne M. Valente
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"Kids love black holes the way they love T-Rex. And I think it’s because each of these entities can eat you. And anything that eats you, you give your highest respect."

—

Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (via sonnywortzik)

#THIS IS ACTUALLY A THING#KIDS BELIEVE IN CONSUMPTION AS THE HIGHEST FORM OF CONTROL#THAT’S WHY THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH APEX PREDATORS

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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

—   Maurice Sendak

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