“I, myself, have always found that if I examine something, it’s less scary. We always had this theory that if you kept a snake in your eye line… the snake wasn’t going to bite you. That’s kind of the way… I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.”
“Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen. I hurt people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other. I cried until I was not even aware when I was crying and when I was not.”
— Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem; “Goodbye to All That,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
