“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.”
― Captive in the Dark
― Captive in the Dark
“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
― Ariel
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
― Ariel
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