Hedvig

“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put in paper many things he did not know about himself.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is. Maybe there would be fewer crazy people.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden