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“Apollo represents all that we strive for: strength, rationality, order, selflessness. Dionysus represents the outside world: weakness, emotion, disorder, selfishness, hedonism, intoxication.
“The palest ink is clearer than the strongest memory.”
“If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know it had some help.”
But part of being a young woman in an older man’s world is picking your battles, and this is one I won’t win. Sometimes you have to eat shit.
A church. This is a church of shelter, learning, and growth. These young ladies come from the outside world, a world that has abandoned them, abused them, distracted them, poisoned them. Saint Agnes houses them, feeds them, protects them, builds them back up.
People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.
“You can hope for the good times, but it’s the bad times that make you.”
Fear is like a cancer—it starts with an actual moment but then multiplies and gains hold of you until it’s bending your experience of everything around you.
My mom once told me that a relationship built on a lie is destined to crumble, and that’s one thing we both agree on.
‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’
‘The only things you should ever give to a man are a job and a swift kick in the ass.’
