“Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present, and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation, and getting high of the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.”
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
― So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“While offenders were in fear of losing a small part of their privilege, the victims were running the risk of losing everything.”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“I had (and have?) this void, this cavern of loneliness inside me that I have spent my whole life trying to fill. I was willing to do most anything if that boy would ease my loneliness, I wanted to feel like he and I belonged to each other, but each time we were together and then after, I felt quite the opposite. And still, I was drawn to him.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of behavior, choices I’m making where I’m trying too hard, giving too much, reaching too intently for being right when right is what someone else wants me to be. It’s scary, though, trying to be yourself and hoping yourself is enough. It’s scary believing that you, as you are, could never be enough.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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