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When people hurt bad enough, they’ll grab any idea to make their own lives better, no matter how illogical.
“Step. It’s work to prevent what’s spinning in my head from getting too close to my heart”
― Home of the American Circus
― Home of the American Circus
“There are 161 songs about New York City, more than any other city in the world. There is a reason for that. Despite the noise and the outrageous cost, the crowds and truly repulsive smells, it is unlike anywhere else. To move there, even at my advanced age of thirty-eight, was to be reborn, revitalized. If human beings are energy, what are eight million of us in those five boroughs?”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“This was the other side of love. This was the aftermath, the cost, the opposite end of the bargain. This was the dirty, damp confetti and trampled flower petals, stamped into the muddy ground and tossed about by the wind, long after the parade had ended. This was the sad, lonely echo in the hall, now that the dance was over. Here, in this room, was grief. But grief was love in its second shape.”
― The Poppy Fields
― The Poppy Fields
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