I Had Looked Forward So Eagerly To Leaving The Horrible Place, Yet When My Release Came And I Knew That God's Sunlight Was To Be Free For Me Again, There Was A Certain Pain In Leaving
Caitlyn Isn't Someone To Get Over. She's Someone To Come To Terms With, The Way You Have To Come To Terms With Your Parents, Your Siblings. You Can't Deny They Ever Happened. You Can't Deny You Ever Loved Them, Love Them Still, Even If Loving Them Causes You Pain.
You Can't Deny They Ever Happened. You Can't Deny You Ever Loved Them, Love Them Still, Even If Loving Them Causes You Pain
Working Collectively And Collaboratively Is The Difference Between Mediocrity By Yourself Or Success As A Team. You Have To Share The Pain And The Responsibility And If You Do Then You Will Also Share In The Rewards.
Aesthetic Value Emanates From The Struggle Between Texts: In The Reader, In Language, In The Classroom, In Arguments Within A Society. Aesthetic Value Rises Out Of Memory, And So (as Nietzsche Saw) Out Of Pain, The Pain Of Surrendering Easier Pleasures In Favour Of Much More Difficult Ones ... Successful Literary Works Are Achieved Anxieties, Not Releases From Anxieties.
And, As Long As You Can Make Yourself Go On Choosing The Pain Over The Relief, You Can Keep Going.
I Wanted A Drink. There Were A Hundred Reasons Why A Man Will Want A Drink, But I Wanted One Now For The Most Elementary Reason Of All. I Didn't Want To Feel What I Was Feeling, And A Voice Within Was Telling Me That I Needed A Drink, That I Couldn't Bear It Without It. But That Voice Is A Liar. You Can Always Bear The Pain. It'll Hurt, It'll Burn Like Acid In An Open Wound, But You Can Stand It. And, As Long As You Can Make Yourself Go On Choosing The Pain Over The Relief, You Can Keep Going.
I Wanted To Die, Then. I Wanted To Destroy The Body I Was Trapped In, Become What She Was, No Matter What It Took. No Matter How Much Mutilation Or Pain. But He Looked Away, At Me. He Pulled My Face Down And Pressed My Lips Against His Like He Was Almost Trying To Suffocate Us Both.
I Wanted Him To Hold Me, To Take Care Of Me. To Make The Pain Dissolve Away. I Know That This Was Part Of What Had Ruined Everything But I Wanted It Once More Anyway.