Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.
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Don’t make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. Make wonderful mistakes. Make the kind of mistakes that make people so shocked that they have no other choice but to be a little impressed.
Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It’s a person. And we’re finally home.
The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.
That’s life: Trust and you’re betrayed; don’t trust and you betray yourself. Like most moral paradoxes, it places you in an untenable position.
I am myself. That is not enough.
Sylvia Plath, “The Jailer” (via wordsnquotes)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
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