Ellen X.
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"Uneasy and gruesome read but I’m crying and laughing with her ❤️🩹" — Sep 16, 2024 03:52AM
"Uneasy and gruesome read but I’m crying and laughing with her ❤️🩹" — Sep 16, 2024 03:52AM
People nowadays get upset at the idea of being in love with a city, especially Los Angeles. People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned
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“This struggle between wanting a rooted, domestic existence and a life of nomadic liberty is a very human instinct, one that has been examined endlessly in the psyche of male stories and tormented male protagonists. Now, it’s our turn to wrestle with this quandary.”
― Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
― Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
“But most people in America, those who are fed and clothed and housed, can choose what to care about. From your comfortable position you can decide if you want to know about people in Syria or Myanmar, with the flip of a television switch.”
― Real Americans
― Real Americans
“I once had my heart broken – a proper sledgehammer job – and I went for a drink with a friend who is happily married in her forties with a child. My tears collected in a wine glass and I told her that I wanted to sleep until it was over. She held me by the shoulders and said: ‘One day you’ll look back on this and you will think, I was never more alive.’ I don’t want to romanticize your pain, but I now understand exactly what she meant. Grief is an electric shock that tells us we are fully alive – it means we’re connecting and creating and caring. We’re participating. We’re making the most of this short go. We’re opening up and taking risks, we’re tangling ourselves in other lives.”
― Dear Dolly
― Dear Dolly
“Keep putting love out into the world and it will come back to you in one way or another.”
― Dear Dolly
― Dear Dolly
“It’s not the absence of fun, it’s the absence of fear.’ Keep this in mind when you are looking for someone to share your life with – someone who’ll bring fun without fear. Someone whose company you love. Someone who makes you feel alive and safe and understood. Those are the specifics you should be looking for. The rest doesn’t matter so much.”
― Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
― Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom
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