Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Alice Walker, from “Even As I Hold You”, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990
"You say it's the way
These passing years have treated you
That the weight of the dreams you once carried
Has now defeated you
That our candlelit dinners will all just be reheated through
Our quarrels and disappointments
Just get repeated, too
Well I've packed our bags,
I know I should have consulted you
But pretending to bargain
Would have only insulted you
So do just as I say, we'll go away today
The fire still burns whatever you may claim
Let's be young again, if only for the weekend
Let's be fools again, let's fall in at the deep end
Let's do once more
All those things we did before
The summer we crossed Europe in the rain"
-Stacey Kent, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
“Another kind of courage. The courage to be repulsive. Everyone should have been through it, in any case, everyone will have to go through it.”
— Claude Cahun, from Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930, tr. Susan de Muth (via women-loving-art)
“everything will be okay”: shallow and dismissive comfort that establishes impossible goal an indefinite future away
“in two weeks you will have different problems”: so true bestie the human experience
