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Do you ever just wonder if you cross someone’s mind as they’re driving home, doing dishes, laundry, the mundane things when it really matters

I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact, that you do not mention this term yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it? Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development.

- A Letter from Freud (to a mother of a homosexual) (1935) 

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker’s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

On a scale of Severus Snape to Heathcliff, how badly do you treat the child of your dead long-lost love purely out of longtime hatred towards their father and resentment that she chose him over you?

your month, your quote 💗🌟

January - “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die” - Franz Kafka

February - “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence” - Sylvia Plath

March - “For years I begged you/ to just take me in your arms/ you wouldn’t, couldn’t” - Lana del Rey

April - “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” - Allen Ginsburg

May - “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

June - “I did crave attention, but I refuse to humiliate myself by asking for it” - Ottessa Moshfegh

July - “…her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly” - Simone de Beauvoir

August - “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself” - Virginia Woolf

September - “With the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring” - Lana del Rey

October - “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards” - Vladimir Nabokov

November - “I talk to God but the sky is empty” - Sylvia Plath

December - “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy” - Franz Kafka

ps.. i wanted to include this alexander hamilton quote - “i never expect to see perfect work from an imperfect man” - but i couldn’t decide, take it if you’d like 💗