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dorothea-rising:

dorothea-rising:

“i think about the glorious world of the future. think about me think about me think about me. not to be uncontrolled, not to control. alone. safe…to be separate, to be alone, to stand and walk alone, not to be different and weak and helpless and degraded…and shut out. not shut out, shutting out…on the other side somewhere there is a country, perhaps the glorious country of well-dom, perhaps a country of a story. perhaps both, for a happy book…laughter is possible laughter is possible laughter is possible.”

— from the diaries of Shirley Jackson

Above is the last entry Jackson wrote in her diary before she passed away in her sleep at the age of 48