#monywrites

i think, truthfully, i don’t want to know the answer to that, because if there weren’t, then i’d be alone. i would be painfully alone, an outsider among blood. i don’t think i could bear it.

why must i be resigned to something i have never once expressed desire for, something i, if left to my own devices, would more than likely not subject myself to?

what good is having intelligence, eloquence, skills, if i am to be stuck in a house taking care of a man who is capable of caring for himself? what good is this life if it’s not even mine to live? was i made for this, was anyone?

blessed are children and wives, i have no resentment towards them, for i know, from experience, it is not their fault that they are in the position they inhabit.

what kind of species is the cause of their own downfall? i think that’s something unique to humans. it will be from their own inventions, their own thoughts, that will kill them all, the ones they thought made them above other animals.

“we have language! we have education! we can use our hands to make things!”

whether it be war, man-made disease, or something else that they have created to keep their own superficial beliefs and belongings like power, or money, that truly mean nothing beyond the grave—they will cause their own extinction in one way or another.

i watch the baby laugh and coo from afar,

before i am struck with a terrible sadness,

that one day, she, too, will be faced with the struggles of growing up as a woman,

that she will have to endure it all, as i have, because of those her mother labels as family.

in the next instant,

the child chokes,

and time stills,

Hi Friends! I like reviewing things. Mostly books & series of books but sometimes TV shows and movies (especially if I have recently read the books). Here's a list of them.

I do write fanfiction on my main account sometimes if that's your thing.

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Juliet, a novel by Anne Fortier

Shadow Hunters show on Freeform

Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare