Sabrina Benaim · 80 pages
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“i held hands
with my sadness,
sang it songs in the shower,
fed it lunch,
got it drunk
& put it to bed early.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“mom says where did anxiety come from?
anxiety is the cousin visiting from out of town
depression felt obliged to bring to the party.
mom, i am the party.
only, i am a party i don't want to be at.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“mom still doesn't understand.
mom,
can't you see?
neither do i.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“how do i teach my ears to hear songs without the ghosts of you inside of them?”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“mom, i am lonely.
i think i learnt it when dad left;
how to turn the anger into lonely,
the lonely into busy.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“my heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“i am sleepwalking on an ocean of happiness i cannot baptize myself in.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“when i see a candle, i see the flesh of a church.
the flicker of life sparks a memory younger than noon;
i am standing beside her open casket,
it is the moment i realize every person i ever come to know will someday die,
besides, mom, i'm not afraid of the dark,
perhaps that is part of the problem.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“it's weird how a jacket can be more reliable than a father.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
“& my heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself.”
― Sabrina Benaim, quote from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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“But it was not what I wanted to do! I wanted to star in a silent movie and vamp the sheik, take a trip to the South Seas … walk naked in the sand and surf … write a novel about it. Be the Empress of the Galaxy, be discovered by a hero that would ravish me, and take me away on high adventure! Take a interminable motor home trip across the US and find out how the past had become the present. Journey to Europe, speak flawless French, and become the courtesan in the country chalet where all the real people came to party.” She laughed again. “Mostly I did not want be confined to routine … endless routine.”
― William C. Samples, quote from Fe Fi FOE Comes
“...
'Keep on, then, seeking first the Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you. So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles.'
– Matthew 6:33, 34”
― quote from New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the time Giraldus was writing, and the king was trying to secure an annulment of their marriage from the Pope. It would have been to his advantage to declare her an adulterous wife who had had carnal relations with his father, for that in itself would have rendered their marriage incestuous and would have provided prima facie grounds for its dissolution.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
“Playful,” Amanda repeated, shaking her head. The idea contradicted all her long-held ideas of romance and sex. One did not “play” in bed. What did he mean?
Was he implying that sexual partners enjoyed jumping on the mattress and throwing pillows, as children did?”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Suddenly You
“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind and he died of what he saw there.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
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