My-ugly-organs - Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

One Need Not be a Chamber - to be haunted, Emily Dickinson // I am Not Clinically Crazy Anymore, Brenna Twohy // Cyanotypes, Emilio Hernandez Martin // Ghost I, Christina Marie Brown // Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story, Ed Simon // Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado // Agamemnon essay @nedlittle // Photo: Messier, quote: unknown

Margaret Atwood, from The Door: Poems; “Europe on 5$ a day”

[Text ID: “I’ve cut myself off. / I can feel the place / where I used to be attached. / It’s raw, as when you grate / your finger. It’s a shredded mess / of images. It hurts.”]

When the chronic fatigue is chronic

Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

Adding to this,

YOU ALSO CANNOT HATE YOURSELF INTO A BETTER PERSON

i repeat

YOU CANNOT HATE YOURSELF INTO BECOMING A BETTER PERSON.

REMEMBER THIS.

what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy