Gabi

“To get rejected so vehemently
Over and over again
Until some said it was the rejection I was after
No it wasn't
I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus.”
― Phillip Lopate, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

“There are things you want to say but don't
There are things I want to say but I already said them
A year ago or two or five, when we first met
There were times I thought you knew I loved you
You never knew
We never were
I died
You died
That's it”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“if people are denied certain parts of relationships they need as children, they hunt for these parts as adults.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women