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History has forgotten greats like Adelaide Herrmann, Dell O’Dell, Celeste Evans, and Dorothy Dietrich, and relegated women to serving as little more than pretty props.
“When you’re rich and famous, you can get away with anything. You have no idea what I’ve gotten away with.” The thing is, she looked scared when she said that.
how long and hard should I look for someone who might not want to be found? Nearly ten years later, the questions still linger.
They call themselves survivors, the loved ones of those who went missing. But that’s not what I am, not really. I wish there was a special word for those of us living with ambiguous loss. There isn’t a language that feels right, a sensical way to parse
out and assign definitions to the thoughts and emotions. Usually, I don’t think of myself as surviving anything. Usually, I see m...
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Ten years I’ve remained in the same house, kept the same phone number. Ten years I’ve held my tongue.
There’s only so long I’ll be able to remain silent.
Keeping Violet’s secrets has been like living with a bomb planted inside me.
When you really don’t want to believe something, you’ll create a new logic to circumvent the truth; sometimes necessity isn’t the mother of invention so much as denial.
There is an ever-widening sinkhole of mediocrity trying to consume us all and we need to find higher ground.
We’re on this planet for a millisecond, a blink of an eye. Don’t accept your innate insignificance. Don’t settle for being content. Aim higher than good or simple. Make that blink count. Your best self will emerge from the strife that accompanies chasing glory, from the climb to greatness, the quest for astonishment.
Dream bigger, aspire harder, pursue the impossible, and find that fucking magic.
It’s human nature to notice patterns.
I don’t understand why people feel the need to do that, assign fake significance to happenstance. Guess it’s more comforting to believe the universe sends signs and omens, that there’s a method to its madness, instead of accepting the true chaos of our reality.
Minerva, one of Houdini’s contemporaries
incidentally, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement was paid to get sawed in half at magic shows.
Have you heard your favorite song or eaten your favorite food only one time? Had only one orgasm your entire life? No. We like to re-create our best experiences, chase that exhilaration.
with: F@AA/F@AW. It stands for Fabulous at Any Age/Fabulous at Any Weight, one of the mottos adorning various goods in her shop.
a lot of magic seems to be about the different ways a man can control a woman’s body. Think about it. You have the man sawing a woman in half, stretching her out, throwing daggers at her, levitating her…”
Sometimes I worry being a creature of habit has closed me off from new things. And maybe that’s had a negative impact on Quinn. She has more ambition than I ever did, but she’s still a nervous kid in some ways.
Siouxsie and the Banshees.
“Sometimes the smaller things have a larger meaning than you’d expect,”
“If you go by the Kübler-Ross model, yes, there are five stages of grief, though not everyone experiences each one, and the order can vary. In your case, you’re also coping with ambiguous grief in reaction to a loss with no closure. This comes with added levels
of stress, which can leave you stuck in any one of these stages.
I guess I’m scared of believing the wrong thing, feeling the wrong way.
“How did you deal with those unspoken things?” “Sometimes I vented to Gabriel, but mostly I sucked it up.”
“No, I found it pointless to keep track of my inconsequential life.”
“Why didn’t you tell Violet how you felt?” “Because one of us had to be the nice one.” I rub the back of my neck; how heavy this crown of self-righteousness.
It doesn’t
only take guts to do the brave thing. It also takes guts to try to do the brave thing.”
Ana-lise Margolis.
ley lines
Sometimes traditional scientific methods can actually limit our understanding, particularly in matters of space-time.
“extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
they are better interpreted as signposts. I like to think of it as the universe waving at you, trying to direct you down a certain path or confirming the path you’re currently on.
John Mulholland?
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
Uri Geller
Adelaide Herrmann.”
the more time passes, the more you don’t know how to fix things.
