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“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Just saw two ants drown together in my bathtub and it reminded me of us: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I am a superficial woman of depth.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Bringing a child into the world without its consent seems unethical. Leaving the womb just seems insane. The womb is nirvana. It’s tripping in an eternal orb outside the space-time continuum. It’s a warm, wet rave at the center of the earth, but you’re the only raver. There’s no weird New Age guide. There’s no shitty techno. There’s only you and the infinite.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I fear others will discover that I am not only imperfect; I’m not even okay. I fear that I truly am not okay. But most people who meet me never know that I am struggling. On the outside I am smiling. I am juggling all the balls of okayness: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential. Underneath, I am suffocating.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I think it’s time for you to drop back into my life, ruin it, then disappear again: a love story. The”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Maybe we do better when we see each other simply as beloveds.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“What I have sought in love is a reprieve from the itch of consciousness -- to transcend myself and my human imperfections -- but this has yet to happen.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“It seems weird to me that here we are, alive, not knowing why we are alive, and just going about our business, sort of ignoring that fact. How are we all not looking at each other all the time just like, Yo, what the fuck?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“God, for me, is more of a feeling, a feeling of peace. I think my god lives in a silence that exists inside me. It's such a delicious fucking silence, so profound. But this can also get tricky, because if I'm feeling crazy then I'm like, Where the hell is god? Has god abandoned me? Like, no peace, no god. But it's still better than some bro deity telling me I'm a piece of shit.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“In the context of food and consumption, too-muchness translates into not-enoughness: your appetites are too big for the planet, and therefore, you probably shouldn’t be here.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn’t want you then and felt relieved: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Parents, if your kid is eating herself, you have to let her. Let your child devour herself whole. Even if she disappears completely, encourage her to vanish. Let your child eat the shit out of herself and then shit herself out. Let her eat that.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“What happens to the space that two people occupied together? How can it just disappear? Why can't it just become something else?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“We're going to spend the rest of our lives together in my head: a love story”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Text me back: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“Validation is my main bitch.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I’m in love with you and you don’t want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I claim to believe my god exists, because I have experienced its presence many times. I have experienced god through other human beings who have helped me. While individuals have let me down, collectively I've always been able to help.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“You have enough friends.

Do you really want to just be friends? There is nothing worse than just being friends with someone you're in love with who isn't in love with you. Actually, being friends with benefits with someone you're in love with who isn't in love with you is worse. But friendship with no benefits is bad too.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“They say the sea is actually black and that it merely reflects the blue sky above. So it was with me. I allowed you to admire yourself in my eyes. I provided a service. I listened and listened and listened. You stored yourself in me.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“Maybe there is a law after all. Of nature. Like gravity. An unwritten axiom that governs our emotional dealings. What you do comes back to you with twice the force, fuck it, three times the force. We are not punished for our sins we are punished by them.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“You can’t hurt a man with a pinprick when he’s already got a spear in his chest.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“They say you’re not punished for your sins, you’re punished by them.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“I’ll offer you the possibility that I’m wrong only if I’m fairly sure I’m right.”
― Anonymous, Diary of an Oxygen Thief

“Eyes from which nothing but truth could possibly seep.”
― ANONYMOUS, Diary of an Oxygen Thief