Girls

Depressed

She felt dangerously powerful, she loved, she knew love, everything else paled.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with.

When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.

“Perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving. No watermelon tastes red. Apropos: while waiting for a bus once, I saw open down the arm of a midfat, midlife, freckled woman, suitcase tugging at her hand like a small boy needing to pee, a deep blue crack as wide as any in a Roquefort. Split like paper tearing. She said nothing. Stood. Blue bubbled up in the opening like tar. One thing is certain: a cool flute blue tastes like deep well water drunk from a cup.”- William H. Gass, On Being Blue

“All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.”- Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son