“I want us to be all mixed up. I don't want you to go away.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested in but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.”
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
“the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― North Woods
― North Woods
“I am trying, late in the evening, to say something about love, which for many of us is not separable from the other shit.”
― All This Could Be Different
― All This Could Be Different
“I’m doing better now. I’m assimilating into what I’d like to think is a normal existence. And I don’t want contact with the prior life. You make me vulnerable.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
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