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March 30, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

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“I don’t like pity. Pity makes you feel small and weak. I’d rather have someone hate me than pity me.”

— Marco, Book #15: The Escape, pg. 98 (by K.A. Applegate)

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“Tell me, father, which to ask forgiveness for: what I am, or what I’m not? Tell me, mother, which should I regret: what I became, or what I didn’t?”

— thoughts of a stray iii | m.a.w

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Samuel Beckett, from The Complete Dramatic Works; “Endgame,”

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"Can I tell you that, sometimes, I utter the word justice and mean revenge? On my best nights, I mean mercy, but my best is my rarest form."

J. Estanislao Lopez, from "My Uncle's Killer"

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There is within me a thing that is aching, aching, aching always as the days pass.

Mary MacLane, from 'I Await the Devil's Coming'

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Patti Smith, from the introduction of Devotion

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—– rose ausländer

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the double image, anne sexton from the complete poems written c. 1960

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I kept being alive when I should have been burning: I was Joan, I was Lazarus.

Louise Gluck

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Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

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Louise Glück, Vita Nova; from ‘Timor Mortis’

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[Text ID: I do not want to be a saint. / None of this is my fault. /End ID]

Confessions, Kanae Minato (trans. Stephen Snyder)

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“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”

— Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door” in Poems 1962-2012

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“And again the dark eats me: (…)”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via adrasteiax)

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“Perhaps the most striking part of this trauma is how we grow fangs in response to being bitten. I did not lick my wounds. I became you.”

— Werewolf As Suffering