
“Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.”
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“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
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“Falling for someone is like pulling a loose thread. It happens stitch by stitch. You feel whole most of the time even while the seams pop, the knots loosen, everything that holds you together coming undone. It feels incredible, this opening of yourself to the world. Not like the unraveling it is. Only afterward do you glance down at the tangle of string around your feet that used to be a person who was whole and self-contained and realize that love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing.”
― Black Iris
― Black Iris

“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
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“Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
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