“ Your eyes, your raging eyes. ”
silverskins:
“You make a fool of death with your beauty,”
— Florence & The Machine, from High as Hope (2018); “Hunger,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

godswollen:
from “From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation: Dead Bodies in Twentieth-century American Fiction” by Lisa K. Perdigao
“ Tell me how it is, being
the sun. You could walk
into a room and they’d
all be watching you.
They’d all get down on
their knees. I ask you
how it is, and you
say, “It hurts. It hurts.” ”
“ croceum pro corpore florem
inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis. ”
—
“…a flower for a body, gold in its core, surrounded by white petals.”
- from Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Echo et Narcissus. (via
xshayarsha)