“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Crush
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Crush
“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Those Imperfect Strokes
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night...”
― Those Imperfect Strokes
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Crush
but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Crush
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