everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

"All that was necessary to be loved widely was to publish one's anxieties. The whole enterprise of art was a calculated display of suffering." - Leonard Cohen.

Show me your monsters.

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

"Breavman, you're eligible for many diverse experiences in this best of all possible worlds. There are many beautiful poems which you will write and be praised for, many desolate days when you won't be able to lay pen to paper. There will be many cunts to lie in, different colors of skin to kiss, various orgasms to encounter, and many nights you will walk out your lust, bitter and alone. There will be many heights of emotion, intense sunsets, exalting insights, creative pain, and many murderous plateaux of indifference where you won't even own your personal despair. There will be many good hands of power you can play with ruthlessness or benevolence, many vast skies to lie under and congratulate yourself on humility, many galley rides of suffocating slavery. This is what waits for you."

Leonard Cohen, 'The Favorite Game'

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

So. The world hates you. You are considered the worst thing to be compared to. Throw like a girl. Talk like a girl. Cry like a girl. God forbid we ever be girls.

35-year-old Paramjit Kaur's husband, Nishan Singh, had been very upset over having two daughters. Desperate to have a boy, the birth of a girl again angered him so much that he reportedly tortured and killed his wife in a fit of rage.

I, personally, cringe whenever I hear a woman insist she can’t be friends with other women. Her statement is usually supported with generalizations like “women are back-stabbers” or “women are always jealous of me, how I look or what I have.” I get it. She’s probably been done wrong by a woman she thought was friend. But when I hear such blanket statements about our entire gender, I can’t help but wonder, if you are unable to form healthy relationships with other women, what does that say about YOU? Maybe that’s why Oprah and Gayle are constantly labeled as lesbians. Because society rarely sees two women, who never compete with each other or are jealous of the other’s accomplishments, demonstrate unconditional love, admiration, respect and support of each other in the way that these two besties have done. I’ve said it before: as much as I love men, there’s something special about the bond I have with my female friends that a male partner can’t provide.

Beneath all our confessions and concealments, omissions and commissions, there will always be truths that we didn't know existed. I hope that there is more to the self than what is already known.

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

You will never see this, and if you do, you will never know or believe that this was for you.

I want to take all the words you have ever spoken to me, and all the secrets and all the nights you have ever shared with me, and all unfulfilled moments I have ever flicked at you, and put them all under my bed, that is, the tiny atom-thin blanket of air and dust that must surely exist.

For how can any two things be so close, so intimate, that not even an atom wall separates them?

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.

You are still beautiful after 14 years. I want you to Overthrow Me.

Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.