“I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering. I am blessed with great desires to give of love and time, and find that people respond to this.”
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. November 1956
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“Last week I was picking through the trash, looking for bottles and cans to recycle, and my social worker walked by with her family. She walked just a few feet from me. And I know she saw me. But she didn’t say a thing. Not even ‘hello.’ I asked her about it during our next meeting, and at first she denied seeing me. But then she told me that she had been in her ‘private space.’ That really put a stake in my heart. Why can’t you say ‘hello’ to me in your private space? So I’m writing her a letter. I’m using a dictionary because I want the words to be perfect. If you mess up your words, then it’s easy for people to ignore what you’re trying to say. And I want to be sure she knows exactly how it made me feel.”
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“ Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal. ”
— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (via quotespile)
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“I love you, I love you, and you know it, I haven’t been able to hide it from you completely,”— Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954