“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””—
— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
ELIZABETH OLSEN AS WANDA MAXIMOFF / SCARLET WITCH IN WANDAVISION | The Series Finale
you wear an ancestor’s face. you look like a woman you’ll never meet. in that mirror, there’s thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.
“oh, my lover. oh, my friend
i hope we meet again and again
i pray, in this life or the next”
What if there’s nothing after this? Just darkness. We face it together. As always. I don’t deserve the love you’ve given me, brother. But I am so grateful.
But I have always known I couldn’t live without you. That is a constant, like the sun rising in the east or my having five fingers on each hand.