Abdullah

“When I awakened at dawn, I had a moment of repulsion, of shame. When my feelings aren’t touched, I feel shame, as man does with the whore.”
― Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

“I can tell now about the breathing exercises, which at first caused anxiety, sobbing and pain, but which brought release, warmth and sensuality afterwards. There is confusion between femininity and masochism, a real split. The only release I had was sensual, and since it was the only release, I over-emphasized it and became a nymphomaniac.”
― Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

“In the land of the borderline autistic, the man who can make eye contact is king.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“That is why I always lie. I can’t have a truthful relationship. Gore’s idealization of me sets my pattern. I begin truthfully, but then I withhold what hurts him, what would destroy his illusion. I hide my psychoanalysis, my real age, my sexual needs, my past lovers and experience, my negro lover, and I give him his dream, his ideal woman. But where am I in the end?”
― Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin