“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work – a quest that never ends. It demands everything from you – especially the truth. Only then does it yield rewards.”
― The House of Hades
― The House of Hades
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel someday. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“Strange the way time did not move, but deepen.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
“See something worth stealing? Put it in the swipe file. Need a little inspiration? Open up the swipe file. Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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