The Fact That Humans Can Be Killed Through Physical Means Is So Ridiculous To Me

my father couldn’t warm my frozen hands

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“I’m in this with you.” 

Art by @kalvzr. 

NADEREH ABDELAHYEVA in The Silence (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1998, Iran, Tajikistan, France)

“Makhmalbaf has said that this scene was inspired by a poem of Forugh Farrokhzad (the popular female poet who died in 1967). Eric Egan has located this poem in which there is a movement from ‘the girl who coloured her cheeks with geranium petals’ to ‘a lonely woman.’ However, it seems that Makhmalbaf remains with the young girl who decorates herself, and who is still in the garden, enjoying paradise. She is not yet ‘a lonely woman’, rather she is enjoying the moment and celebrating life…” [Lloyd Ridgeon, “Listening for an ‘Authentic’ Iran: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The Silence/Sokut]

Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947

I have to keep myself reminding this!

You can do and have all you want if you step out of your own way. You are nothing less than stunning.

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Taylor Hickson & Amalia Holm play Raelle Collar & Scylla Ramshorn. #Motherland

maybe she’s born with it maybe it’s just the character traits she stole from her favorite fictional characters