2006-01-17 - 9:18 p.m.
**Does anyone relate to one (or both) of these quotes? Which one?**
I am going to pull a Christina and quote from (different parts of) a book:
"You're such a perfectionist. You're an absolutist. You measure everything against some kind of ideal that exists in your head, and if it doesn't come up to your beautiful notions then you condemn it out of hand. Or you just pretend to yourself that it's beautiful even when it isn't."
"She stood there, night after night. She could see herself standing there, and said to herslef. This is madness. This is being mad. Being mad is not being able to stop yourself doing something that you know to be irrational...And yet she continued to dress herself and to stand for hours at window, waiting, every night. And, standing there and looking at herself, she could see how this madness was linked with the madness that had prevented her from seeing how the affair would inevitably end, the naivety that had made her so happy. Yes, the stupid faith and naivety and trust had led, quite logically, into her standing at the window waiting for a man whom she knew, quite well, would never come to her again."
