“You wear that sadness so well.
Do I? Do I really? Sadness isn’t a dress, you know. It’s not an evening gown to prance around in at a cocktail party, or some skimpy little satin skirt for a fashion model to drape across her body.
But sadness is such an attractive thing in girls.
It’s not. Sadness is a terrifying, consuming force. It eats people up and burns holes into them, holes they can’t extinguish even with the touch of someone else’s fingers.
How is sadness terrifying?
Because it turns ordinary people into ghosts, into zombies, into walking copies of themselves. A sad girl is not a romantic object; she’s a girl and she’s full of sorrow and one day that sorrow is gonna rip her apart if you don’t stop treating her like something beautiful.
You’re being so uptight. The sad girls are always the pretty ones. Their sadness makes them pretty.
No, it doesn’t. Sadness does not determine one’s self-worth. It’s an ugly, miserable thing that hides in corners like a monster and lurks under beds.
Then how come so many people are so sad? If sadness is so bad, then how come the world is full of it? Answer that one.
Because sadness is like a disease. There’s never a permanent cure. So don’t treat someone who’s sad or depressed like a beautiful thing, because they’re not. They’re human and tragic and fragile and they have a tremendous need to be loved, just like anyone else.”
- Conversation 7
Do I? Do I really? Sadness isn’t a dress, you know. It’s not an evening gown to prance around in at a cocktail party, or some skimpy little satin skirt for a fashion model to drape across her body.
But sadness is such an attractive thing in girls.
It’s not. Sadness is a terrifying, consuming force. It eats people up and burns holes into them, holes they can’t extinguish even with the touch of someone else’s fingers.
How is sadness terrifying?
Because it turns ordinary people into ghosts, into zombies, into walking copies of themselves. A sad girl is not a romantic object; she’s a girl and she’s full of sorrow and one day that sorrow is gonna rip her apart if you don’t stop treating her like something beautiful.
You’re being so uptight. The sad girls are always the pretty ones. Their sadness makes them pretty.
No, it doesn’t. Sadness does not determine one’s self-worth. It’s an ugly, miserable thing that hides in corners like a monster and lurks under beds.
Then how come so many people are so sad? If sadness is so bad, then how come the world is full of it? Answer that one.
Because sadness is like a disease. There’s never a permanent cure. So don’t treat someone who’s sad or depressed like a beautiful thing, because they’re not. They’re human and tragic and fragile and they have a tremendous need to be loved, just like anyone else.”
- Conversation 7