Melissa
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“You could die, I thought, and it was a nice relaxing thought at the time. I imagined death like a switch, switching off all the pain and noise, cancelling everything.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“Real writers, and also painters, had to keep on looking at the ugly things they had done for good. I hated that everything I did was so ugly, but also that I lacked the courage to confront how ugly it was.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.”
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
“Something being over is not the same as something never having happened.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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