— Fiona Apple
I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days,
Marilynne Robinson, from Gilead
“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
I think toy doctors are so nice actually like i remember being a little heartbroken kid when one of my beloved stuffed animals got old and torn up and my mom just threw him out. And i know what it would have meant to me, to have someone lovingly stitch him back up instead so i could love him just a little longer. And I’m really glad there are little kids out there who get to see pictures of their stuffed animals and dolls with little fake hospital beds and casts as they “rest & heal” before returning to them good as new. Like what a sweet thing to do with your life.
Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977
STARING AT UNFAMILIAR CEILINGS AND I SHOULD LEAVE CAUSE EVERYBODY HERE IS TRIPPING SOME NEW DRUG EXCEPT FOR ME… CAUSE I DON’T HAVE THE MONEY.
You know, actually, it's not that I need to be in a relationship for my life to be complete or have meaning. It's that I have been forced to deny myself access to an entire portion of myself in order to survive in this world. I am meant to love and I have an immense capacity for love. It comes very easily to me, but I have never really had an opportunity to experience it fully in a healthy way.
I've had glimpses of it and I know that finding someone who can not only handle how I love, but wants and welcomes it, means I also get to experience myself without restriction. It's the one mask I've never been able to remove in a life filled with masks.
i get paid next wednesday, June 11, but between then and now i have.......... 20 entire dollars to my name! YAY CAPITALISM
i need to put gas in my car and get food to last the week, if anyone can donate or help spread the word that would be greatly appreciated <3
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102
it's you, it's always been you .
home, with expired film