oh god. i’m scared to watch running with scissors. i’ve read so much of augusten’s work that this feels weird. i think brian cox as the psychiatrist is good casting, however gwyneth paltrow as hope is…. disturbing. and i have other opinions.
“I knew I had an ugly life. I knew I was lonely and I was scared. I thought something might be wrong with my father, wrong in the worst possible way. I believed he might contain a pathology of the mind–an emptiness–a knocking hollow where his soul should have been. But I also knew that one day, I would grow up. One day, I would be twenty, or thirty, or forty, even fifty and sixty and seventy and eighty and maybe even one hundred years old. And all those years were mine, they belonged to nobody but me. So even if I was unhappy now, it could all change tomorrow. Maybe I didn’t even need to jump off the cliff to experience that kind of freedom. Maybe the fact that I knew such a freedom existed in the world meant that I could someday find it.
Maybe, I thought, I don’t need a father to be happy. Maybe, what you get from a father you can get somewhere else, from somebody else, later. Or maybe you can just work around what’s missing, build the house of your life over the hole that is there and always will be.”
i’m not gonna lie i’ve been pretty depressed you guys. sorry. i just feel so lonely and so 😆😆😆 something separates me from other people. but you know how it izzzz.
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