── song lyrics

• a hidden gem, my own goldmine / you had the wide and wild eyes / you were a secret to yourself / you couldn't keep from anyone else / now you're the biggest brightest flame / you are a fire that can't be tamed
  • lucy dacus, hot & heavy (2021)
• what if the way you hold me / is actually what's holy? / if long suffering propriety / is what they want from me / they don't know how you've haunted me / so stunningly / i choose you and me / . . . religiously
  • taylor swift, guilty as sin? (2024)
• now i want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes / and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons
  • taylor swift, the black dog (2024)
• i'll be there for you when your wings break / letting go of you that's a heartbreak / my angel
  • artms, virtual angel (2024)
• i have worn the jester's bells and i have vanished with the fools / i have worshiped at the altar of the puppet master's rules / i have held my tongue too many scenes before the final act / with my children in the cheap seats and a zipper on my back / thanks to you / no thanks to you
  • brandi carlile, broken horses (2021)
• two weeks in a virginia jail / for my lover, for my lover / twenty thousand dollar bail / for my lover, for my lover
  • tracy chapman, for my lover (1988)

── literature

• “do you like her?” “of course!” what a question! like asking her if she believed in god.
  • patricia highsmith, carol (1952)
• i live in the desert of the heart. i can't love the whole damned world.
  • jane rule, desert of the heart (1964)