i love it when characters are codependent. i love it when losing someone feels like losing a limb. i love it when two people "complete" each other so wholly and terribly that one can barely function without the other. i love it when the fear of losing the only person who understands them is so all-consuming they'll destroy anything to stay together, including themselves.
shipwrecked menelaus in euripides' helen:
odysseus someplace mid-odyssey at that exact moment: alright time to go a-beggin' again, hold my chlamys
You can't wake up, this is not a dream You're part of a machine, you are not a human being
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“you will never be remembered for who you are, only for what was done to you”
Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?
— Excuses For Why We Failed At Love, Warsan Shire
Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again
a naked sword is hanging
above the sinner's neck
they will never enjoy a feast again
thinking normal thoughts about the writing in corvo’s cell
