How To Love A God: I.stay Away From Him. Legendsare Never Boys. Godswere Never People. Godsdo Not Love.ii.despise

how to love a god: i.  stay away from him. legends are never boys. gods were never people. gods do not love. ii.  despise him. who does he think he is? the proud jaw, those seaborne arms, fleeting sparrow-feet planted on the earth as if the world belonged to him? iii.  watch. the quick turn of mouth, the gold of his hair backlit against the sun shining like a halo. if you get too close he’ll burn you to ash. if you get too close he’ll destroy you. iv.  watch him watch you. v.  when he kisses you back hold your breath. do not breathe. you are only a small and foolish boy chasing the tail of a meteor destined for the heavens. if you breathe, you will burn. vi.  making love to him feels like building a home, doesn’t it? here, the oars of his shoulders. here, the temple of his thighs. here, his mouth whispering your name in worship. vii.  when the war comes watch his laughter grow cold and his hands tender themselves red. that is a statue in your bed. that is a man turned to stone from ten thousand stares. viii.  you put on his clothes on to save him from himself.   you put his clothes on to spend your last breath inside him again. ix. you know what will happen and you do it anyway. you burn because this is what it means to love. this is what it means to fly. x. recall the tale of Icarus. choose to be Icarus.

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…Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.

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She didn’t love him and he didn’t love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (via wordsnquotes)

You can be dead inside and still shine, don’t you believe me? Just ask the stars.

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And she walked with heaven in her step, but hell in her eyes.

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I was scared and I was scarred. And I don’t know which happened first.

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