For once in my life, I wanted to surrender to romance, to believe love was sparkly and special and not something that made you look in the mirror and shake your head at your own stupidity.
“With the darkness of night, the human soul finds solace in being hidden—fewer eyes to interrogate you for the odd joys you hold in your heart. Funny, the things I never noticed before. The things that I wish I would’ve paid more attention to when I was alive.”
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
“It wasn’t my fault? Then, years later, I changed that thought from a question to a statement, and those words became my daily mantra. It was never my fault. So why do I still want to die?”
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
“My light died a long time ago—flickering with the many exhales of disapproval until finally, with one big breath, it was blown completely out. Like a withering candle left out in the cold, surely to hush and diminish as expected.”
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
― A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope
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