May 2011
1 post
March 2011
3 posts
“Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as...”
– Douglas Coupland
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“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Magical Thinking, by Augusten Burroughs
October 2010
3 posts
“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than...”
– J.K. Rowling
“I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m...”
– Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
September 2010
21 posts
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“Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another...”
– (virginia woolf’s suicide note)
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
“Oh, sure you...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“Catholic childhood religious indoctrination is chillingly effective. Its most...”
– ex-catholic girl: A dirty little girl, her head hanging in shame
“”We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one...”
– Anais Nin
“perhaps we find ourselves wanting everything because we are dangerously close to...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny...”
– Oscar Wilde
“A man does not recover from such jolts — he becomes a different person, and,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Crack Up”
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“Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit- we fall. We give ourselves over to...”
– Tim O’Brian, In the Lake of the Woods
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
– Shakespeare
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“Don’t think the summer is over, even when the roses droop and turn brown and the...”
– Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
August 2010
13 posts
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“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people....”
– Marion Cotillard
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“This morning I am at low ebb. I did not sleep well last night, waking, tossing,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed...”
– Sylvia Plath (Unabridged Journals)
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“To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a...”
– Sheldon B. Kopp
“Here in the hospital, I say,
that is not my body, not my body.
I am not here...”
– Anne Sexton “August 17th” from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
"I don't like standing near the edge of a platform...
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up...
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“Lucretius, like Epicurus, said: limit your wants, and you will limit the pain of...”
– Jane Alison in the NYT, via: the beautiful and the ordinary
July 2010
11 posts
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“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered...”
– The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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“How strange and sick the ‘fat’ insult is. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst...”
– J.K. Rowling
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“I tell people it’s like being dead. It feels like being a ghost, maybe. You...”
– Deborah Gray, Reflections on Depression
“Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other...”
– Lou Holtz
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“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches,...”
– Walt Whitman