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“I love you Josiah
I’m sorry I’m still broken
but I could still make you happy.
Let’s pour one out
to knowing
not hoping”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
I’m sorry I’m still broken
but I could still make you happy.
Let’s pour one out
to knowing
not hoping”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“My first prayer was into a purple plastic toy megaphone. I even went into the closet to do it in case God was shy like me.”
― This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
― This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“I don’t need you
but I want you
because you’re so cool
and I’m not that damaged”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
but I want you
because you’re so cool
and I’m not that damaged”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“Hey, I get you, man,” assured Officer Villalobos. “And what you feel is totally valid—”
“—for Christ’s sake, can you stop saying what you think you should say?” said Gonzales.”
― A Happy Ghost
“—for Christ’s sake, can you stop saying what you think you should say?” said Gonzales.”
― A Happy Ghost
“She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You couldn't sit with her and converse with her like you can normal people." It wasn't pride, he thought, that made her this way. "Shyness came into it. She couldn't lend herself to people. She was a little bit aloof from people, and I don't think she intended to be.”
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
― Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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