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“God, for me, is more of a feeling, a feeling of peace. I think my god lives in a silence that exists inside me. It's such a delicious fucking silence, so profound.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“I wanted you to come back,' he said. He touched her. She was so wet, so wet. Sliding in and out of her he said, 'I like to see how I hurt you there, how I stab you there, in the little wound.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“He had been been patting his handkerchief between his palms; now he opened his handkerchief and reached out and wiped my forehead. "You're all I've got," he said then, with a shy, pained grin. "Be careful."
"Daddy," I said. And began to cry. And if speaking had been agony, this was worse and yet I could not stop.
And my father's face changed. It became terribly old and at the same time absolutely helplessly young ...
"Don't cry," he said, "don't cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“The moon is definitely judging me. Dogs knows the truth. Babies see through me. Anything natural, anything pure: judging me.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays