I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: babydoll. Pull on a sweater and, in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words? Thousands of hours of therapy have yielded a few ideas from the good doctors. They are often feminine, in a Dick and Jane, pink vs. puppy dog tails sort of way. Or they're flat-out negative. Number of synonyms for anxious carved in my skin: eleven. The one thing I know for sure is that at the time, it was crucial to see these letters on me, and not just see them, but feel them. Burning on my left hip: petticoat.
And near it, my first word, slashed on an anxious summer day at age thirteen: wicked. I woke up that morning, hot and bored, worried about the hours ahead. How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen. I remember feeling that word, heavy and slightly sticky across my pubic bone. My mother's steak knife. Cutting like a child along red imaginary lines. Cleaning myself. Digging in deeper. Cleaning myself. Pouring bleach over the knife and sneaking through the kitchen to return it. Wicked. Relief. The rest of the day, I spent ministering to my wound. Dig into the curves of W with an alcohol-soaked Q-tip. Pet my cheek until the sting went away. Lotion. Bandage. Repeat.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Edith HamiltonYou got secrets you better keep
Take flight before she cuts you deep
- Sam's song
Tag: wicked mythology demons urban-fantasy songs-lyrics impiorum
In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.
Rick RiordanTag: humor funny wicked lol annabeth-chase athena
Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?
Gregory MaguireTag: wicked lion gregorymaguire
To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
Gregory MaguireTag: wicked looking-glass munchkinland turtle-heart
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?
Galinda GlindaTag: humor past history random funny wicked
We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him now, hook, line and zipper.
Dennis SharpeTag: wicked sexy turn-of-phrase perverse
She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.
Shannon CelebiTag: selfish heart wicked selfishness motherhood mother mothers sons wickedness son sons-and-mothers mothers-love
Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can't be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges.
Israelmore AyivorTag: believe wicked self-image food-for-thought challenges leader lead abilities excellence inspiring leaders self-belief ability inspire love-yourself believe-in-yourself excel discourage low-self-esteem dunamis israelmore-ayivor self-leaders self-leadership leads self-leader dicouragement excelling
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