“ We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. ”
A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?
~ Leslie Jamison
Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
Freedom from one man is just another one.
It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.
