FOUL GODS!! I feel your hands like gnarled vines pricking at my skin, each finger a bone, each limb a bony thorn, mouth agape FOUL GODS!! I hear utterances from your mouths but I cannot place which words rest between which teeth, ever-gnashing, ever-throwing themselves open, jaws agape, wide and accepting FOUL GODS!! You demand […]

They say your name used to be a synonym for the sea, harsh and lovely and unforgiving. You’ve been long since forgotten, o mother of monsters, o queen of the deep, alone in the cracks and crevices of the cold, rough seabed while other, newer gods tread on your waters.  You’ve been long since forgotten, o merciless […]

The waves lap at your feet and the wind blows through your bones as the sea-bed sways under your steps. The howling of the wolves is a symphony you’ve become desperate to forget. They said it was a compromise and instead it was a hostage situation that spanned centuries and as they pressed the knife […]

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that. Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via books-n-quotes) Source: booksnquotes.com

Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off… the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the […]

[I]deas about pagan religion spread widely in Estonian society and laid the foundation for the views of 20th-century scholars. Heathendom and Christianity were seen as polarized opposites, but their evaluation became ambivalent. On the one hand Christianity was seen as the liberating force that had saved Estonians from heathendom, but on the other hand it […]

holy, holy, holy. these are the words he murmurs into your skin, language of prayer, language of divinity, language of worship. holy, holy, holy. he whispers it into your crook of your neck, rolls the words into the hollow of your throat, into your bones, into your sharp edges. holy, holy, holy. a mantra. a […]