“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
“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
“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
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
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