madison

“Like a breath of fresh air, I have constantly exhaled myself from my lungs. I think I like to pretend I am reborn into who I am meant to be. The truth is that I reinvent myself so often I have never given myself the chance. Every conversation is an opportunity to slip into a skin that is not mine yet fits just as uncomfortably as my own. I tell myself it takes time. But you can tell yourself that same thing every single day because it never won’t be true. I am sure there must come a day when I can no longer shapeshift. But until then, I am likeable, and I am needed, and I am here.”

“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.”

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.