“He may attempt suicide, often not with the intent to die but to feel something, to confirm he is alive.”
― I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
― I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
“A possessive part of me wants to hoard this story. I want to chipmunk or squirrel away the memory of this event, place it in a tree trunk with the memories of all the other rapes, attempted rapes, and gropes, memories that will never be released or consumed. When a man asks, "What did he do to you?" he's asking to eat one of these traumatic acorns. Girls never ask for these seeds. They know what it's like to be degraded and fucked by this world, to be made a big-time bottom by life. They don't need the details of my particular shame to construct empathy.”
― Mean
― Mean
“Gabriella let go of the knife and I held it in the same place for a minute or so, slowly dragging it up and down my thigh, doing it with a really light touch, not really doing any damage. I pulled it up my leg again but on its way down I put pressure on shaft, broke the skin with it, the blade traveling horizontally down the length of my leg for her, to show her how ready I was for her, so she could see some part of me that was on the inside.”
― Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella
― Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella
“It’s not fair that I’ve had so much privilege. And by privilege I mean life.”
― Mean
― Mean
“Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.”
― Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
― Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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