“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.
I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Love & Misadventure
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.
I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Love & Misadventure
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