The.ms.honeybun

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”
― Anais Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

“Maybe god was not found alone on our knees in submission but rather upright in pain, shoulder to shoulder as conduits of love, together in the terrible beauty of human experience. Perhaps god was found in the confluence of love and pain.”
― Stephanie Catudal, Everything All at Once: A Memoir

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“I allowed myself to feel it all: the fear, the anger, the sorrow, the subtle beauty leaking in through the cracks, the everythingness of pain, and the love wrapped around it soft and loud and invisible—all of it intrinsically connected, each moment a shared experience.”
― Stephanie Catudal, Everything All at Once: A Memoir