Selections from Darkness and Light: Private Writing as Art<\/em> (an anthology of contemporary journals, diaries, and notebooks) and In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing<\/em><\/p>\n Truth reveals itself in consequences.<\/p>\n Nothing lasts these days except what we throw away.<\/p>\n They say: don’t take it personally if someone doesn’t love you. I say: should I also not take it personally if someone does<\/em>?<\/p>\n Life used to be cheap because it was short. Now it’s cheap because it’s long.<\/p>\n A vacation is a cage of freedom.<\/p>\n Despair is a sort of ecstasy, an ecstasy that feels bad.<\/p>\n In person we’re only puppets of ourselves.<\/p>\n I’ve tried to know hundreds of people. But I keep running into the same person, over and over again.<\/p>\n Hope is like having one last fling.<\/p>\n Identity is an illusion, a temporary state. Everyone is searching for it, but it’s only a brief reflection in a very shallow pool of time.<\/p>\n Everything holds the possibility of falseness, except tragedy.<\/p>\n I feel invisible but not invisible enough.<\/p>\n Wonder and doubt are one, leaves from the same tree.<\/p>\n Holidays are too soft (and too loud).<\/p>\n The darkest night is a light, compared to eternity.<\/p>\n Tenderness is humility.<\/p>\n What’s free? Only thoughts, as long as we keep them to ourselves.<\/p>\n Life says: death is none of your business.<\/p>\n Ordinary life is like a bad novel: clich\u00e9s everywhere, and no real character development.<\/p>\n Patriotism is the opposite of free speech.<\/p>\n What are whispers? The sound of words breathing.<\/p>\n Aphorisms: drops of blood from my life.<\/p>\n I secretly embrace everything<\/em>, sideways.<\/p>\n Blinded by the sun of my own longing to see.<\/p>\n Thoughts are intangible heartbeats.<\/p>\n Only the dead are old. The living are always young and na\u00efve.<\/p>\n Fog is rain that whispers.<\/p>\n Who do I write to\/for? No one I know. Only strangers, the unborn, and the dead.<\/p>\n No way to say it except this<\/em> way.<\/p>\n The simple moods are a clear blue sky, and a secret is a bird that hauntingly flies by.<\/p>\n Lack of intimacy with others is a death sentence.<\/p>\n Only the wind remembers.<\/p>\n Language is a wave that covers me and then recedes back into the sea, leaving just sand and broken shells at my feet. I walk in the sand, I pick up the broken shells. These<\/em>.<\/p>\n Love is a dance. Friendship is a walk.<\/p>\n Life is a vacation from death.<\/p>\n Why do people look at me when they look at me? And why do people not look at me when they look away?<\/p>\n Link the leaps.<\/p>\n Proof that I’ve never grown up: all the questions I ask.<\/p>\n A lifetime is just one long Now.<\/p>\n To be celibate with someone you’re in love with is almost like making love.<\/p>\n What are my fragments? Parachutes that open as I fall through the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Olivia Dresher
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