“A structure is a living thing with a history and personality worth saving and, unlike a human being, can be stripped back to the studs, all the bad decisions peeled away to its point of origin, before being rebuilt.”
― The Insatiable Volt Sisters
― The Insatiable Volt Sisters
“was true, I was mean sometimes. But I didn’t have it in me to be kind to someone who saw me only in relation to property and propriety.”
― Indelicacy
― Indelicacy
“My dad’s point, I think, was that evil doesn’t take people by surprise. In order for it to really get you, a tiny piece of you has to want it.”
― Tinfoil Butterfly
― Tinfoil Butterfly
“It’s amazing how quickly people make you into wallpaper.”
― Tinfoil Butterfly
― Tinfoil Butterfly
“And madness in its simplest form is narcissism—a self stared at so long and so hard that any potential beauty in it becomes horrifying.”
― Tinfoil Butterfly
― Tinfoil Butterfly
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