Angie

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.

Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.”
― Frank McCourt, Teacher Man