something about “intimacy is violence and it is destruction” and “i love you so much i’m gonna let you kill me” and “how do you love? like a fist. like a knife” and bucky in your last piece and something about monstrous cannibalistic love wow
hell yeah, lemme share this post with you. tw: lotsa blood. this vibe was a bit more intentional when i wrote perihelion with steve, but i can see how it would apply for the last fic too :) some more quotes i love:
i will love her like walking into fire/ she will be the kind of pretty so sharp it feels like loving a knife- natalie wee
desire as a holy knife/ a foreign object/ lodged deep in the body- yves olade
everyone if we’re going to talk about love please we have to talk about violence- emily skaja
i will turn myself into a gun, because i’m hungry and hollow and just want something to call my own- richard siken
I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife- richard siken
love opened a mortal wound. in agony, i worked the blade to make it deeper- sor juana ines de la cruz
i confuse instinct for desire — isn't bite also touch- natalie diaz
lovers discover each other only in mutual laceration- georges bataille
they’ll talk about us/ all the lovers/ how we kissed and killed each other- lorde
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