“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default, as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him … Continue reading I Fell In Love With Him
Quotes
Do Not Go…
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emotions, In My Experience
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "The happiness that attends disaster." Or: "The disappointment of … Continue reading Emotions, In My Experience
People Assume…
“Mental illness. People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin, like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of, Have you trieds. 'Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you … Continue reading People Assume…
I Could Not Tell You…
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” … Continue reading I Could Not Tell You…
There Is A Stubbornness…
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ―Jane Austen
It Is The Apathetic Person
“It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.” ―Shannon L. Alder
The Power To Speak
"I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent." –Rabbi A.Y. Kook If this doesn't sum me up, I don't know what does.
Love Isn’t Just A Feeling
“Love isn't just a feeling. Love is a choice, too. And you may not be able to help your feelings, but you are responsible for the choices you make about what to do with them.” ―Holly Bourne
I Am Not Free…
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” ―Audre Lorde
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 