“My heart can feel like an elephant who is feeling dread and has an exceptional memory and naturally possesses something valuable that might be hunted, poached, wasted.”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“Yes, there have been lots of feelings that have felt like breaths in with no out breaths.”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth?”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars
“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“In those days I still believed the love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man was stronger than the love of drinkin and hell-raisin—that love would eventually rise to the top like cream in a bottle of milk. I learned better over the next ten years. The world’s a sorry schoolroom sometimes, ain’t it?”
― Dolores Claiborne
― Dolores Claiborne
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