Life Lesson:

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Joyce Carol Oates, “Death Mother”

Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.

Richard Siken
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This has absolutely happened to me before, except it was where the ceiling meets the wall.

It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that’s dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer-than-close to them? It’s so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can’t say the things you want to.

Henry Rollins