I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
Interpretation
This quote illustrates the painful betrayal of someone who fails to keep their promises.
Anne Sexton's quote vividly conveys the sense of disappointment and anger that arises when trust is broken in a relationship. It suggests that promises meant to be uplifting or reassuring can turn into sources of pain when they are not honored, reflecting the darker side of human interactions and the emotional aftermath of broken commitments.
In practice
During a discussion about the importance of keeping commitments in relationships.
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then the opposite must also be the case. We can take comfort in the fact that our faults will be invisible to those who love us. The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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