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“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”
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“You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom. ”
― Among the Missing
― Among the Missing
“In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.”
― Sourland
― Sourland
“Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.”
― Sourland
― Sourland
“It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.”
― Among the Missing
― Among the Missing
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