“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“I'm no stranger to fucking up.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“Everyone has that moment, I think, the moment when something so...momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. And then you have to stop. For a long time, you gather your pieces. And it takes such a very long time, not to fit them back together, but to assemble them in a new way, not necessarily a better way. More, a way you can live with until you know for certain that this piece should go there, and that one there.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
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