Clementine:
"Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."

Joel"I think that there's a truly seductive quality about Clementine. It's that her personality promises to take you out of the mundane. She'll carry you to ( Read more... )

I jumped off a cliff ( Read more... )

so hungover my stomach is twisting around like a twelve year old gymnast and screaming BITCH IT'S YO LUCKY DAY! and then attempting to climb up my esophagus and out of my body, presumably to continue kicking my ass.

"Sex without love is somewhat analogous to driving while under the influence. We have all done it. Some of us quit before the inevitable accident."

I've forgotten how to sleep alone in my bed - which is acres wide, arid and unwelcoming. A deserted sprawling wasteland of musty sheets. Instead I pace my room, running my fingers along my dresser and my books, touching the little Chinese good luck figurines, just to touch them. I sit for hours with a blank notebook in my lap and stare at the pages ( Read more... )

Things I did with my mom while snowed-in at a hotel in Bangor ( Read more... )

With my heat off because I can't afford oil, we hide out under five quilts with our socks on, getting warm.
That's enough.

My life is this crazy mess. Sometimes I hate it and sometimes I love it, but it's time for me to just start loving it full-time, before I find I've wasted all my time being unhappy.

and Oh that sounds so simple, even though these things never are, but I say it that way, simple and clear, and maybe maybe it will become true.

For the first time in a very long time, I'm at no loss for people to party with. Drinking buddies, thieves, troublemakers. But lying on my living room floor, wondering how this could ever have become my life, what I really need is someone to talk to.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills ( Read more... )