β I think that youβre incredibly beautiful.β
βReally?β
βReally. β
Love Jones, 1997
Youβre not who you used to be. Not to me anyways. And itβs never felt so good. Releasing you into the air feels like exhaling after 10 minutes underwater.
hm. i think every time i feel an impulse to people please, to be unproblematic and likable and charming and feel the safety that comes with universal adoration, i need to remind myself that i want to be loved like a person, not like a dog.
So, how you gonna pass the family test? Delicious or impressive?
Delicious is impressive.
"I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break."
-Marya Hornbacher, Wasted
"I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, More Than Just A House
β Frank Bidart, from βHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; βThe Third Hour of the Nightβ", published c. 2017.
on loving your siblings
I don't love anyone, Belle and Sebastian// The Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda//The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)//Fleabag, 2x06//NA//Rabbi Joseph Telushkin,Β Jewish Literacy//Antigone, Jean Anouilh//Maurice Sendak//Little Miss Sunshine (2006)//Electra, Sophocles//NA
