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These days, it’s all bae and fleek, bootylicious selfies and cultural appropriation done on brand. That puts me in a weird linguistic space, with my chosen vocabulary. I mean, I could embrace the present, but I feel a responsibility to my
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“Growing up, I believed in all sorts of fantastic things. Ghosts and aliens, monsters that brought on nightmares and fed on fear. The fantasies materialized every time I closed my eyes, making me afraid to fall asleep. I'm still scared of sleeping alone. The yawn the sneeze, the breath of whoever's lying next to me retrieves me from the nightmares. Even though I'm all grown up. I say it like a joke, and it usually gives people a laugh. "You're still a little kid," they say. It's lonely being in a big bed all by myself. It's never hurt my feelings. They're only strangers.”
― Love or Hate
― Love or Hate
“I was thinking...why am I so easy to throw away? Why won't anyone take me...when someone decides to go I will always be left behind.”
― Loveless, Volume 06
― Loveless, Volume 06
“Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange.”
― The Woods All Black
― The Woods All Black
“Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.”
― Bear
― Bear
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