“People are like this too, you know,” he says eventually. “We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don’t have to hide them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“I will probably continue to make poor life decisions and suffer recurrent depressive episodes”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Other times she wondered whether she just wanted someone-someone clear-sighted and free of delusion-to look at her, to understand her and render what they saw so that she, in turn, might look and understand too.”
― Sirens & Muses
― Sirens & Muses
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