“Only healthy people are capable of being in love. Using love to treat an illness just makes the illness worse.' I realize that's exactly what I did: I used love to fight illness, and it ruined me. I have to change my ways. I can't be like that anymore.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
― Notes of a Crocodile
“My mother always told me that to be a girl one must be especially clever.”
― Happy Hour
― Happy Hour
“Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
― Notes of a Crocodile
“I became obsessed with Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. I devoured all kinds of books for tortured souls. Started collecting issues of the independence movement's weekly. Studied up on political game theory, an antidote to my spiritual reading. It made me feel like an outsider, which became my way of recharging. At the break of dawn, around six or seven like a nocturnal creature afraid of the light, I'd finally lay my head - which by then was spilling over with thoughts - down onto the comforter.
That's how it went when things were good.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
That's how it went when things were good.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
“Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society.”
― Notes of a Crocodile
― Notes of a Crocodile
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