#absolution

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

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#cash #deity #lip #lip service #me

I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it. "You're absolved," I tell him. He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me. So I put it in his language. "You're free. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

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#freedom #letting-go #dreams

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly? ↗

— C.R. Strahan

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#arrogance #folly #intelligent-men #intelligence