“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Emma
― Emma
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