#miriamkramer

Maybe I will survive, and because I did not see it coming, I will stop blaming myself. I will stop blaming myself for my mangled remains / I am alone–unloved and without someone to love–the thing I feared most in the world. I have touched bottom. And I survive. I feel unlovable. But I respect that unlovable soldier–struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honorable. I respect myself. - Miriam Kramer, from “Five Seconds and Counting,” published in Anti-Heroin Chic / Susan Sontag, from a diary entry featured in As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980 #quotes #susansontag #miriamkramer #sunlight #light #imageofmaddiesuffering