“I was used to that strange pining then, where I was more interested in the beauty of boys than girls because I wished so badly that I were them”
― Anyone's Ghost
― Anyone's Ghost
“Our hands empty except for our hands.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it”
― The Death of Vivek Oji
― The Death of Vivek Oji
“I considered how he might feel when he saw me. So much of my happiness depended on his expression. Would he frown or smile? If the former, I would dance on eggshells of the evening and try to please him like there was a gun to my head. The latter, I would be happy but know that it wouldn't last, would clutch the happiness like it was a bird in my hands until it suffocated. And he would tell me that it was my fault, that I killed the bird, but he would have been the one who put it there, placed his hand over mind, and squeezed.”
― What It's Like in Words
― What It's Like in Words
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