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#1

“Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: heartbreak, love, rejection

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#2

“I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.”
― Anne Sexton

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#3

“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it. ”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

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#4

“Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.
Then the almost unnameable lust returns.

Even then I have nothing against life.
I know well the grass blades you mention,
the furniture you have placed under the sun.

But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.

In this way, heavy and thoughtful,
warmer than oil or water,
I have rested, drooling at the mouth-hole.

I did not think of my body at needle point.
Even the cornea and the leftover urine were gone.
Suicides have already betrayed the body.

Still-born, they don't always die,
but dazzled, they can't forget a drug so sweet
that even children would look on and smile.

To thrust all that life under your tongue!—
that, all by itself, becomes a passion.
Death's a sad Bone; bruised, you'd say,

and yet she waits for me, year after year,
to so delicately undo an old wound,
to empty my breath from its bad prison.

Balanced there, suicides sometimes meet,
raging at the fruit, a pumped-up moon,
leaving the bread they mistook for a kiss,

leaving the page of the book carelessly open,
something unsaid, the phone off the hook
and the love, whatever it was, an infection.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: death, suicide

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#5

“Her Kind

I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.”
― Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

tags: growth, poetry, survivor, woman

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#6

“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen....”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

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#7

“Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn."
Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.”
― Tamora Pierce, Street Magic

tags: bad, balance, briar, good, magic, nightmares, rosethorn

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#8

“He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Unbound

tags: advice, bad-things, coping, da, dark-times, dealing-with-problems, dreams, fear, nightmares, reality, surviving

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#9

“Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: dreams, nightmares

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#10

“Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.”
― Mike Carey, The Naming of the Beasts

tags: dreams, nightmares

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#11

“Chase your dreams and your nightmares will grow tired of chasing you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: chase-your-dreams, dreamer-quotes, dreams-quotes, greatness-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quote-of-the-day, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-runners, motivational-quotes-for-women, nightmare-quotes, nightmares, success-quotes

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#12

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing. So they fragment the memories into hundreds of shards, leaving only acceptable traces in their conscious minds. Rationalizations like "my childhood was rough," "he only did it to me once or twice," and "it wasn't so bad" are common, masking the fact that the abuse was devastating and chronic. But while the knowledge, body sensations, and feelings are shattered, they are not forgotten. They intrude in unexpected ways: through panic attacks and insomnia, through dreams and artwork, through seemingly inexplicable compulsions, and through the shadowy dread of the abusive parent. They live just outside of consciousness like noisy neighbors who bang on the pipes and occasionally show up at the door.”
― David L. Calof, The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abusive-childhood, abusive-parent, abusive-parents, addiction, alcohol-addiction, alcoholism, avoidance, bad-childhood, body-memories, child-abuse, child-rape, childhood-abuse, compulsions, compulsive-behavior, compulsive-eating, compulsive-overeating, conscious-awareness, defense-mechanism, denial, denial-of-abuse, denial-of-child-abuse, denial-of-incest, dissociated-amnesia, dissociation, dissociative-amnesia, dissociative-disorder, dread, effects-of-child-abuse, fear-of-truth, flashback, flashbacks, fragmented, healing, healing-abuse, healing-from-abuse, healing-insights, incest, incestuous, insomnia, intrusions, intrusive, irrational-fears, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-illness, minimization, minimizing, minimizing-issues, nightmares, panic-attacks, parental-abuse, psychological-defence, ptsd, rationalization, sadistic-abuse, seemingly-inexplicable-behavior, self-protection, sex-addition, subconscious, survivor, survivors, trauma-memories, trauma-memory, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-memories, traumatized

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#13

“Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by the beasts below. Hoping you pull up anything at all.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: consciousness, sleep

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#14

“They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind’s collective Jekyll.”
― Robert Dunbar, Vortex

tags: folktales, nightmares

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#15

“To achieve extraordinary dreams you sometimes have to go through extraordinary nightmares.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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#16

“I go to bed. I straighten your hair. I close my eyes just as your perfume hits me. I tell you how my day went. I hear your plans for tomorrow. I realise it's been years since you were there. I open my eyes, wipe a tear, close them again and dream you were here.”
― Esteban Urayoán

tags: nightmares

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#17

“If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: determination, dreams, fear, nightmares, overcoming-obstacles

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#18

“The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.”
― Indiana Lang

tags: death-and-dying, desire, galaxy, happy-life, inspirational-life, life-philosophy, love-quotes, night, nightmares, space-exploration, thinking-positive, thinking-with-a-great-mind

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#19

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#20

“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

tags: grief, joy, limits, wonder, words

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#21

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships, romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words

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#22

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

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#23

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth

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#24

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories

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#25

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

tags: drama, fight, heartbreak, letting-go, life, reality

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#26

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

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#27

“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: couples, death, fellowship, love, marriage, memory, relationship, sadness, sorrow

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#28

“And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

tags: companionship, fellowship, togetherness

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#29

“Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

tags: christian, church-life, fellowship

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#30

“We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.”
― Lucy Mack Smith

tags: fellowship, relief-society

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