Maggie Nelson Quote

They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.

Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!