on mothering a tween.
sometimes, when my 10 year old tells me he loves me after I’ve told him no, I feel that he’s really saying, “I hate you bitch.”
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Mom, seriously. What is wrong with you? Did you put a little something extra in your coffee this morning?
My son, on why I’m up and running around like a crazy lady at 6am.
god, yes.
this, all of this.
all of that. Is this David Levithan’s work by chance?
Today has been a very good day.
Sunset
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But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
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It happens here all the time. Every day and night there’s at least one breakdown - someone loses control and starts to scream or sob or moan. Minerva says it’s better than letting yourself go - no, not that she ever does. The alternative is freezing yourself up, never showing what you’re feeling, never letting on what you’re thinking. (Like Dinorah. Jailface, the girls call her.) Then one day, you’re out of here, free, only to discover you’ve locked yourself up and thrown away the key somewhere too deep inside your heart to fish it out.
In the Time of The Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
