so come on, baby, put a little sugar in the tank

“How do you know it’s love… What’s the underlying question? Because we’re bound by love. Either you’re acting on it or you’re not… I guess for me, I failed at my usual business of being like, ‘I can control how I feel, and my actions, and whatever.’ And, you know, I can control my actions. But you can’t control how you feel, and… I guess, like, my feelings were so persistent, that I was like, ‘my life is gonna be unbearable if I don’t live into this.’ Like, truly. I was like—to a detrimental level, just like, ‘I think I’ll hate myself if I am not honest about this, if I don’t make changes and make way, and see about this.’”

lucy dacus shot by suki dhanda for the guardian [x]