All the circles we’ve ever spun And all the records when we sing along The moments frozen, one by one I know where I’m going I no longer need to run
“It was in a foreign hotel’s bathtub I baptized myself in change. And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been. I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror and someone new was there.”
— Bright Eyes (From a Balance Beam)
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980; February 20th, 1970
Text ID: Everyone who has had a bad childhood is angry. I must have felt angry at first (early). Then I “did” something with it. Turned it into—what? Self-hatred > Fear (of my own anger, of the retaliation of others). Despair.
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
“....Because if I don't, that means that all the damage I got isn't good damage, it's just damage. I have gotten nothing out of it, and all those years I was miserable was for nothing.”
-Diane Nguyen (S6E10: "Good Damage")
I thought we could forgive each other
footsteps at the pond // la dispute
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