Erica Jong, the New York Times. Discovered by my friend Emily, who is actually not at all morbid, just sharp enough to realize that this is a really, really beautiful way of putting it.
It being the way life can feel sometimes. Also, not sure when my tumblr got so Angela Chase depress-athon; it’s not normally my disposition. I’m more of a cherry cordial than a black licorice sort of girl, if that makes sense.
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Anne Sexton killed herself because it is too painful to live in this world without numbness, and she had no numbness at all.
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