“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”
― Blood Noir
― Blood Noir
“Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.”
― Obsidian Butterfly
― Obsidian Butterfly
“Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.”
― Incubus Dreams
― Incubus Dreams
“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”
― Bloody Bones
― Bloody Bones
“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”
― A Stroke of Midnight
― A Stroke of Midnight
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