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“The first time my heart broke, I thought back to
the day in my childhood when a piece of glass went
through my finger after an ill-fated cartwheel.
I was eleven years old.
My mother and I were in our bathroom cleaning
up the wound. She dribbled peroxide onto the cut.
It fizzed and burned; I winced at the pain.
It needs to burn so you know it’s healing,
she explained.
That small exchange during my adolescence helped
me learn to appreciate the pain pulsating from my
broken heart. In spite of the severity of my wound,
I knew the healing process had already begun.”
― Alicia Cook, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately

“Just because I don't trust you
doesn't mean I have trust issues.
Just because I won't commit to you
doesn't mean I have commitment issues.
Just because I watch what I eat
doesn't mean I have body image issues.
Just because people have left my life
doesn't mean I have abandonment issues.
Just because I yearn to grow and evolve
doesn't mean I have identity issues.

I know exactly who the hell I am.
(Track Fourteen)”
― Alicia Cook, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately

“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense