The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.
“If the self can only understand that ‘it was already dying, already dead’, then it can crash to the bottom with equanimity; if it can also understand that everything around it is fleeting and insubstantial – a speck of dust in the cosmos, to be blown away in a millisecond – it can quietly let go of the world. It won’t hurt much.”
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
― How to Blow Up a Pipeline
“Predators and abusers, my shrink has said, can sense your pain and weakness. It’s their gift.”
― The Doll's House
― The Doll's House
“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“But even as I fought to make myself smaller, my self would fight back. The diets would not stick, the laughter would not quiet, the opinions would not hide, the anger would not die. Every attempt I made to be less of myself would fail, and I would come back bigger than ever—in every way.”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“Real life? Real life is hard, my dear, and I am giving you the vision of your fantasies.”
― The Bell Chime
― The Bell Chime
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