my shaking hands

[uhuhher]

She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.

- Joyce Carol Oates, “The Lady with

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[staylazydaisy]

...fuck.