If There Is Anything Left To Say, It Is This:I Would Have Found You Anywhere.I Will Find You Anywhere.

If there is anything left to say, it is this: I would have found you anywhere. I will find you anywhere.

— Venetta Octavia, “Orbitals” from Prelude to Light

“All power corrupts, but we need electricity.”

— - Diana Wynne Jones, Archer’s Goon.

“wrath and ruin the only things I can still swallow”

— Jesse Rice-Evans, from NOON

The spooky truth is how little is known about the dangers of breast implants. A medicine would go through about twenty years of testing before getting official approval to show that it’s probably safe for humans. Implants were not studied until doctors were already performing operations. In fact, all women who get their breasts enlarged are part of an ongoing experiment that could be called ‘What happens when you do this to breasts?’ It’s been trial and error ever since the first op; they’ve used substances that are poisonous and have migrated around the body, like vegetable and soy oil, they’ve used substandard and industrial-grade silicone, PIP implants were found to have a one-in-six chance of exploding, all implants make it more difficult to screen for breast cancer and can interfere with breastfeeding and/or reduce breast sensitivity, and that’s only the success stories. That’s without the awful reports of operations gone wrong, the unqualified butchers, the backstreet conmen and the deaths they’ve caused.

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body: Sara Pascoe

“you took a monster and taught it how to be human. what you failed to realize is how little of a difference there exists between the two. there is no alchemy to make flesh from a blade; only the whetstone, to sharpen it for the inevitable cut.”

— nature vs. nurture, round two | m.a.w  (via bluelikesmoke)

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lives and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

- The Shadow of the Wind; Carlos Ruiz Zafon