"Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again."
- Maggie Nelson
"I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.Of this latter I f..."
"After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain."
"102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain."
"I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screeching f..."
"You’re looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations (all my favorite books in my preteen years: I Know Why the Caged Bi..."
"Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that."
"It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty."
"For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth nor ..."
"It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain."