“how do you tell your mom that she got your body wrong when she made you?”
― Valide
― Valide
“because helping and holding and listening and caring were the only times we felt we knew what we were doing, even though we had no idea. because that was the way that other people loved us. because maybe, we thought in our secret hearts, that's all we were good for.
caregiver, i see you.”
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
caregiver, i see you.”
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
“There is no particular way to describe what I was intuiting around me. Maybe there isn't a term for a sense of loss when you don't know what you're missing.”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“Fuck? What's the matter, Henry? You never heard that word before? Isn't that what you do to my sister every night?”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“i wanted to be saved, but i'm not that kind of girl. there's something sharp inside me that even the son of God can't smooth out. and it hurts, because I once wanted so much to be the kind of girl who was worthy of salvation, who could just let herself be saved.”
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
― Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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