
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
All shall be well (2014)
“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
New York Times (July 28, 1976).
Variant: How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”
Book IV, Chapter X.
Crowds (1913)