My grandfather used to say “and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel” and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.
i hate it when adults do the whole "it only gets worse from here!" thing. my life will be dream-like forever because i'll make it. and my heart will never harden because i'll do the work of keeping it soft. joy isn't reserved to youth and you won't convince me it is.
I think being in a relationship with someone who would berate me for hours until I cried and then get cozy in bed next to me sobbing and fall asleep peacefully without saying a word or acknowledging I was sobbing actually turned my brain to soup. Cause what was that