Alisha

“Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation.

A what?

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“I'm sure these things are true. But the way she says them feels like an implied criticism. As if she's comparing her own selflessness to my self-absorption. But of course that's just evidence of my self-absorption. My mother is probably not thinking anything like this. In fact, my desire to think that she's thinking of me at all is a bit pathetic.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

“It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr