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Kathleen Duffy
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I always used to think of everything as being on the outside – not part of me, but all separate and out of reach. But it isn’t like that, is it? We make everything ours. What I mean is, we carry the world in our heads, all our crazy
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“Time heals everything, that’s what everyone says. Wounds heal and leave only scars behind. But some wounds run too deep to heal, and pierce the deepest layers of one’s soul. They stay there unhealed and ready to ooze blood at the first sign of grief.”
― Tied to Deceit
― Tied to Deceit
“And still, through all this overwhelming grief and fear and loss, my anger is an ever-present demon. It tangles itself in all the other emotions, stealing the sweetness from my love, poisoning my fear. I watch from the doorway, until finally everything stops.”
― Whisper Me This
― Whisper Me This
“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― The Midnight Library
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― The Midnight Library
“Avoiding talking about things is much more dangerous than having conversations.”
― Everything You Are
― Everything You Are
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