It's in the Water

Female. 19. Adelaide, Australia.

You wanna know what I struggle with? It’s not that I’m too reserved, too detached. It’s that I’m too emotional. I’m impulsive and emotional. And I give myself over right away. And passionately. I pour myself out. Can’t you see that I’m protecting myself? Because I’m afraid I’ll get carried away. I won’t be able to think. I won’t be able to analyze. I won’t be able to work.

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky (via susiesadeyes)

(Source: vashti, via church-mouth)