“We’re all taught to be incredibly self-protective and incredibly defensive and incredibly sophisticated. I’m constantly angered by that. For me, there’s no way of life where I’m not completely showing my ass. The artifice of everyone walking around pretending like we know exactly what is going on—there are times when I just can’t take it. I just want the world to be softer and more vulnerable.” - Heather Havrilesky, to Paris Review (via The Awl). (via luckypaperstars)