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“I´m so sad, small, simple words, the only ones that make sense as I clutch my chest like a child and point to where it hurts.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Can I ask what’s upsetting you?” I take a breath, try to work out the words, but after a moment I shake my head. “It’s too big to explain,” I say. Because it’s about more than my poem being bad, or that I can’t pick a study spot without exhausting myself. It’s a darker feeling, a fear of there being something wrong with me that I won’t ever be able to fix.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“When I was nine, I fell from the last tree I ever tried to climb.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“men who claim to be turned on by strength but can only handle women who act like girls.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa