

And I thought that spirituality was-I really imagined it as like, I’m on a lotus and I’m over here and I feel like I’m on some good heroiny ecstasy, and I can’t be hurt. I want to fix this broken thing, which is my self.

And I was like, any psychic or any astrologer knows more than I do. And I think in my twenties, I was definitely a big finger-clinger I was sort of frantically searching outside myself for this wholeness. Melissa Broder: There’s another quote-I don’t know who said this-but it’s basically saying, all the rabbis and the mystics and the priests are all pointing their finger at the same moon, but we want to cling to the finger. Her new book, Milk Fed, is out now from Scribner.
