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Melissa Broder

  • sillionhas quoted2 years ago
    How dare he not give a fuck? What a luxury, the luxury of a man.
  • sillionhas quoted2 years ago
    I’d heard it said that when you’re feeling good is sometimes when you’re the most suicidal. Maybe it’s after you decide that you’re going to do it that you suddenly seem happier
  • sillionhas quoted2 years ago
    To want what you had—now, that was an art, a gift maybe.
  • sillionhas quoted2 years ago
    You never think, in your fantasies, that the object of the fantasy can be hurt.
  • sillionhas quoted2 years ago
    Why were some sadnesses so much more permissible than others?
  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted2 years ago
    We kissed quickly and then I watched him swim off. I wondered if I had been too engaged in the kiss, too desperate and needy, falling down a hole. Maybe he could sense my addictive tendencies coming off of me like bad perfume. Maybe he was just sexually attracted to me? It was hard to say, but I assumed I had done something wrong, because, well, I always did.
  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted2 years ago
    ?
    No, I needed him and maybe it was okay to need him. This is how love was spiritual, when it felt like this: unity with each other, the self, and all. And if this wasn’t love, then
  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted2 years ago
    The more you went for the ephemeral light, the more the void opened on the other side
  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted2 years ago
    I realized now that what I had to do, in spite of what others said, was not try to change a mood but surrender to it.
  • Alicia Reyes Morenohas quoted2 years ago
    Did chasing the light inevitably lead us here? If we didn’t chase the light, did people like us just end up here anyway?
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