There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb
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“She wonders if her feelings for Gary could be a new form of love, one she’s never known before: love without expectation. Love that you are just happy enough to feel. Love that you don’t try to own like a painting. But she doesn’t know if that is a real thing. She hopes it is.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“People love creating false binaries,” Matt said. “It’s clarifying.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“the fantasy of believing someone else can give you what you don’t know how to give yourself.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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