I’ve even started reading again—something I loved to do when I was young, and quit when stories weren’t offering enough of an escape from my reality.
“If fate is a bunch of strings, then I'll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I'll make them as I please.”
― Six Crimson Cranes
― Six Crimson Cranes
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
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