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Alcestis. CHAPTER TWO ALCESTIS IS THE HEROINE OF A GREEK MYTH. A love story of the saddest kind. Alcestis willingly sacrifices her life for that of her husband, Admetus, dying in his place when no one else will. An unsettling myth of
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“Loss is an assault; a certain exhaustion, as strong as the pull of the moon on the tides, needs to be allowed for eventually.”
― Abide with Me
― Abide with Me
“YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind. You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it. — You know these things. — And yet, somehow, you never think it will be today.”
― Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone
― Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone
“is like an angry hen. The more you chase, the harder it is to catch her. You wait, and be patient, and hope that eventually she comes to you.”
― About Grace
― About Grace
“You don’t have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“why once a woman chooses victimhood, she will continue to choose it again and again.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
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