Melissa Febos Quotes About Confession

Quotes about: Confession

• Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.

  Melissa Febos

  Song, Expression, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

• I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.

  Melissa Febos

  Loneliness, Names, Ears

  Source: therumpus.net

• I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

  Melissa Febos

  Instinct, Confession, Secrecy

  Source: therumpus.net

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