You can only truly break someone once. Everything after that is just chipping at pieces.
“It is morals that help us make laws, but morals do not help us apply them.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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