Alexis

“My love of literature has always sustained me; more than alcohol, drugs, psychiatry and medication ever have or will.”
― Robbie Coburn

“Moon girls, where did you go?”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Both [parents] knew how to fight for humanity's basic human rights: food, water, shelter, medical care. Figuring out how to provide emotional support for their raped daughter did not propel them into action the way the revolution did. On the contrary, it immobilized them, silenced them, left their lungs devoid of breath. 'Don't move, don't speak, don't breathe' had not only been my survival psalm during the rape itself, it became theirs in the aftermath.”
― Carmen Aguirre, Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma

“Oh, all right, I say,
I'll save myself.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems