quotes i can't stop thinking about
"grief is different. grief has no distance. grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life." - joan didion, the year of magical thinking.
"but sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, i found myself looking over a brackish wreak which was illuminated in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that i could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead." - donna tartt, the goldfinch.
"i like red - don't get me wrong. but i have a deep appreciation for anything that is willing to be totally and utterly itself. if you're going to bed red, well, then, be red, goddammit. from your steering wheel to your hubcaps, be red." - adi alsaid, let's get lost.
"i hope the leaving is joyful; and i hope to never return." - frida kahlo.
"i believe in gentleness. lord, i believe in light. i am my own higher power. i will carry myself out." - sierra demulder, after googling affirmations for abuse survivors.
"1-800-273-8255. that's the suicide hotline, we can call it together." - nora cooper, i won't write your obituary.
"that summer i did not go crazy / but i wore / very close / very close / to the bone." - dorothy allison, to the bone.
"i am exhausted, i am exhausted. pillar of white in a blackout of knives. i am the magician's girl who does not flinch." - sylvia plath, the bee meeting.
"sorry about the blood in your mouth, i wish it was mine. i couldn't get the boy to kill me, but i wore his jacket for the longest time." - richard siken, dirty valentine.
"sometimes i wanted to be touched so badly i was scraped by longing." - emma cline, the girls.
"i told her once i wasn't good at anything. she told me survival is a talent." - susanna kaysen, girl, interpreted.