“Trauma has a knack for macerating the past so all that remains are the sharp edges of the agony you sustained.”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
“It’d been my stepfather’s voice too and the voice of so many men I’d met before, all of them charming until privilege crashed into reality, then out came this aggression, this meanness.”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
“It is the nature of people to overcomplicate things: we want there to be nuance to evil and dimensions to good.”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
“The horrors of this dark deed are known only to one, or two, living human beings, and to God.”
― Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Including The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and more
― Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Including The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and more
“I see you inside me," he said once, trailing us between classes. "I see you beneath my skin. I see you standing in the church of my lungs and you are there, holding my bones like a wedding bouquet.”
― The Library at Hellebore
― The Library at Hellebore
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