“I’m alive to both pain and joy now. I have my old laugh back, as my mom says. The one that takes over my body and sends me out of myself for a few seconds. And only a couple years ago, I had hoped I’d die.” - Hayley Williams for Paper Magazine
It’s getting clearer every second that you’re totally bat shit crazy, but you’re a beautiful, sweet girl. Fuck this guy. So many people are gonna love you.
“Any spoken request to leave the Silo is granted, but it is irrevocable. You’ve been asked to clean and have been provided with materials to do so. But you cannot be forced into cleaning. Once outside the airlock, you are outside the law.”
i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said “we’re not catholic here”. now every time i’m doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.
