Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

Women are incredibly good storytellers. Men dispense just facts, or style.

Periods do give women a philosophical depth of despair (having nothing to do with aborted fetuses, Didion!) that men can never attain. Deep downer.

I’m going to score as many fucked-over men as all of them together score on women.

Finally one discovers too late that personality is not inherent in the self but comes from those around us, who have disappeared in my case.

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Yesterday we went to Isla Grande, the Grupa and I. I caught my first fish, a mackerel. Half an hour after its head had been bashed by the fisherman it momentarily thrashed about. I looked questioningly at him and he said, “Mucha vida, muy bueno”; like me in order to feel life I had to die a painfully unending death as well.

Love leads to suffering leads to intelligence.

Writing is hard, there are so many approaches. And you never capture the surprise of life, the way things build up on each other, meaning upon meaning.

Had an excited sense of bow it might not be so bad to fail at love if one could only put it well.