avantgardener:“I had a terrible broken heart when I was twenty-two years old, and I wanted to wear...

avantgardener:

“I had a terrible broken heart when I was twenty-two years old, and I wanted to wear a T-shirt announcing it to everyone. Instead, I got so drunk I fell in the middle of Sixth Avenue and scraped all the skin off my knee. Then you could see it, no T-shirt necessary—see something, that bloody bulb under torn jeans, though you couldn’t have known what it meant.”

— Leslie Jamison, “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain”