Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

"All I want is some man to take delight in me. 5:30? 6:30 A.M. as usual, no cigs. Better a maudlin drunk than a sterile one. My pimples are more like small boils; I have the plague. My lip is split. My tits are swollen and I can't ever sleep. I now breathe with my heart, which skips rope. Back to sex?"

Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

"As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up."

Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico

"I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment."

Maryse Holder, Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico