What do you do when God puts his hands on the table, / pink-red palms / asking for forgiveness?
What happens to forgiveness when God is your father / and you discover he’s just a man with two hands—
B: William Bearhart, from At The Dinner Table With God And My Father
Louise Bourgeois
Garment from the performance, She Lost It
1992
the dogs i have kissed, trista mateer / to be so lonely, harry styles / dfactory (flickr) / little beast, richard siken / i wish i was, the avett brothers / talking to myself, yohji yamamoto / organs, of monsters and men [art: heavensghost] / x / prodigy, marie lu / x
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I guess that I miss you. I guess I forgive you.
Famous Blue Raincoat, Leonard Cohen / Cain slaying Abel, Peter Paul Rubens / Cain leadeth Abel to death, James Tissot / Cain and Abel, Titian / Abel, Camille-Félix Bellanger
haley heynderickx, oom sha la la / celia pym, catalogue of holes / @seravph / madeline miller, circe / patrick bergsma / natalie shapero, a space to train and exit / @madeleinejubileesaito / jennifer willough, the sun is still a part of me
(Chen Chen, Chapter VIII / Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray / Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger / Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God / Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)
Art Credits: Frank Bramley, A Hopeless Dawn / Quang Ho, Night Fall / Teodor Axentowicz, Under the burden of misery
If it’s not too much, may I request a theme of forgiveness. I’ve been obsessed with the line “forgiveness is the lifeline of a sinner” and I’m working on a painting based on it but I wanted some extra quotes for extra inspiration.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
The Haunting of Hill House (2018) 1x10: Silence Lay Steadily
Flume, Never Be Like You
It’s Quiet Uptown, from Hamilton, script and lyrics taken from Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), 2x19: I Only Have Eyes for You
Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Forgiveness
@mageofcole, hettyc
Doctor Who (2005–), 9x08: The Zygon Invasion
a web about responsibility/guilt for something someone else did? (can you guess i’m the eldest daughter from this ask 💀)
Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm
Juha Räikkä, On Irrational Guilt
Morrissey, I’ve Changed My Plea to Guilty
Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
The 100 (2014–2020) 5x08: How We Get to Peace
Marianne Faithfull, Guilt
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Glen Cook, Soldiers Live
Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
Michelle K, I Know I Deserve More
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