Pd Lyons

“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.”
― Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

“I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.”
― Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

“That was the next-to-last time I felt any desire. And he was pale and tall (how disgusting tall men are, such a waste of space and flesh, so uncompact). (I am hideous myself now. Discovered in new, M.C., mirror that skin is a jungle of pearly stretch marks all over. Face sags too. Always new awful discoveries. If could only vomit up age like the food I relentlessly wolf.)”
― Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox