Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

an excerpt from my essay "Motherless"

"I think I finally decided I was never going to be a mother while crying in the bath. It was during that odd transitional phase between high school and college where everything is changing so you have no idea who you are and time tends to blend together later on. And ironically, my period cramps had plunged me into the shallow depths of boiling water. Already miserable and incredibly emotional, I sat there bent over myself and falling victim to the endless supply of content on my small half-charged phone. It was there in my boiled pink and vulnerable state I heard the headlines, something along the lines of only a few years left before we caused irreversible damage leading to a mostly uninhabitable earth by the time I was in my fifties. Scary."

read the rest Sunday, Jan. 28 at 8:00a.m. CST. link below!!

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

check out my poem

“she was tangled in the tree and screaming and I almost laughed.” crazzzzyyy

“I left the pieces on the floor so Constance would see them.” pg 27 bitchhhhhh

“I realized now that this was the third time in one day that the subject had been touched, and three times makes it real.”

pg 26 of We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I was thinking that if eccentric meant, as the dictionary said it did, deviating from regularity, it was Helen Clarke who was far more eccentric than Uncle Julian, with her awkward movements and her unexpected questions, and her bringing strangers here to tea;”

pg 25 of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

me and my lorelai gilmore mug>>>>

highlights from We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

“that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

“All of the village was of a piece, a time, and a style; it was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it.”

“The blight on the village never came from the Blackwoods; the villagers belonged here and the village was the only proper place for them. I always thought about rot when I came toward the row of stores; I thought about burning black painful rot that ate away from inside, hurting dreadfully. I wished it on the village.”

“perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.”

wrongggggggg

"Reuel devoted every moment of his spare time to close study of his patient" (Hopkins 80)

hes in lovee😍😍

this is crazy looking back at

Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Shelf page 84-85.

"—in the flesh!" sounds gross😀

"She is charming; and if it is insanity to be in love with her, I don't care to be sane" romantic

"I will marry her in spite of hell itself! Marry her before she awakens to consciousness of her identity." this is unconsensual

"God and science help me, I will give her life and love and wifehood and maternity and perfect health." and is she agreeing to this???

"when Molly is eternally bound to you," sounds scary😀

"pretty woman ... all sent the blood leaping through the veins in delightful anticipation" aye yo!

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"same admirable bust"

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Lou Salomé