#just the shelley poem and ig some shakespeare

[aconissa]

I was tagged by the lovely ish @snailmailthings​ ❤️

Rules: list some snippets of literature/media that live in your head rent-free to the point where you have them memorised; write them down from memory, no cheating allowed.

‘I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me’ – Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

‘Baggage means no matter how far you go, no matter how many times you immigrate, there are countries in you you’ll never leave’ – Elaine Castillo, America Is Not The Heart

‘If only it could be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper’ and ‘Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?’ – Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

‘Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me, I love you so.’ –Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

‘My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep.’ – Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

‘People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.’ – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

‘His eyes were on me. I almost swallowed my heart.’ – Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

‘I am the daughter of earth and water / and the nursling of the sky / I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores / I change, but I cannot die / for after the rain, when with never a stain / the pavilion of heaven is bare / and the winds and sunbeams, with their convex gleams / build up the blue dome of air / I silently laugh at my own cenotaph / and out of the caverns of rain / like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb / I arise and unbuild it again’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘The Cloud’

‘You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.’ – Margaret Atwood, ‘Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing’

I tag @honnibal @fieropasto @horrorlesbians @serialcannibal @orpheuslament @vvaugh @tenderflint @girlkillsgod (sorry if you’ve been tagged already and no pressure to do it of course!)

#the fact that all but the poems are by/about gay/bi ppl.. iconic #as you can see i can't memorise long blocks of text tho lol #just the shelley poem and ig some shakespeare #ana speaks