How To Destroy A Person ?

“To begin with I like words.”

— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“I don’t know if your story was true—you are the only person whose facts I never bothered to check.”

— Jared Singer, from Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

“My realities may be different from what most people call reality, but still they are realities.”

— Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), in a letter to Osias Kormann, from a Westerbork concentration camp, 1943, in “An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters 1941-43. And Letters from Westerbork″

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Stefan Tobler, from Água Viva

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

you know that character you love so much? (you know – the one from that movie you always watch when you’re feeling sad the one from that show you’ve seen so many times you can quote the episodes the one from that book or comic you’ve read more times than you can count) think about how much you resonate with them how they’re like a mirror image to the way you see yourself how they empathize with pieces of your soul in ways that a real life human cannot how they feel like a representation of you you see so much of yourself in them and you love them so much so why can’t you love you too?  if you can find it in you  to look past their flaws  and see gold shining in their cracks maybe you can do the same for yourself after all if your favorite character is a reflection of you, and you love them more than words can say maybe its possible for you to love you too

(cc, 2020)

Sophocles’ ELECTRA, in translation by:

George Theodoridis

Ian Johnston

R. C. Jebb

Anne Carson

“Some mornings I’m filled with longing, with sadness that has no cause.”

— Lisa Olstein, from “[both the specific remedy and the condition of health]” in The Lost Alphabet (via postmoderniste)