Jade

“It was a long time ago. It doesn’t matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you

you became its slave -

You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave

you had to become its master.

You became its master.

Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“I have launched myself from tall places and hoped no one would catch me.
I have ended relationships because suddenly I was also exposed, but isolation is not safety, it is death.
If no one knows you're alive, you aren't.”
― Neil Hilborn