Anna Patrick's Blog, page 126
July 28, 2016
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take..."
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
- Anaïs Nin (via thatkindofwoman)
- Anaïs Nin (via thatkindofwoman)
July 27, 2016
"Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle,..."
“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
- Rick Warren (via thatkindofwoman)
- Rick Warren (via thatkindofwoman)
July 26, 2016
"When he kissed me I said, Oh my god into his mouth but that, like everything else, was swallowed..."
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- Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler (via hotelsongs)
When he kissed me I said, Oh my god into his mouth but that, like everything else, was swallowed up.
At that moment there was no Jake, no restaurant, no city. Just my desires running flagrantly, power-drunk, through the streets. Merciless, all of them. Was I a monster or was this what it felt like to be a person?
”- Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler (via hotelsongs)
"I think I was interested in the changeability of female desire. How many different forms it takes,..."
“I think I was interested in the changeability of female desire. How many different forms it takes, especially when it locates itself in other girls. It does seem sort of like a proto-romance sometimes. Boys almost act as this triangulation, where everyone’s acting like it’s all about them. But boys are bit players in so many ways, and we have all this emotion that ends up directed at other girls.”
- An Interview with ‘The Girls’ Author Emma Cline (via catapultstory)
- An Interview with ‘The Girls’ Author Emma Cline (via catapultstory)
July 25, 2016
"The sheets on my bed were mussed, the pang of fear still lingering in my room. How ridiculous I’d..."
“The sheets on my bed were mussed, the pang of fear still lingering in my room. How ridiculous I’d been. Being so frightened. But even the surprise of harmless others in the house disturbed me. I didn’t want my inner rot on display, even accidentally. Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life.”
- from The Girls by Emma Cline (via milk-eyed-mender)
- from The Girls by Emma Cline (via milk-eyed-mender)
