“People depend on their misfortunes. We curse them, but we're actually wedded to them, proud of them even.”
― Of Dogs and Walls
― Of Dogs and Walls
“Feeling distant was both lonely and comfortable.”
― Set My Heart on Fire
― Set My Heart on Fire
“I couldn’t tell what pleasure was anymore. At first you get high to feel good or check out. Then, once you’re using it regularly, it stops feeling good. Your brain can’t check out, it doesn’t get you there. But you don’t learn, you keep taking it just to escape the withdrawal. To forget the chilling despair you feel when you sober up.”
― Set My Heart on Fire
― Set My Heart on Fire
“It was as if I had become transparent, to the bottom of my heart, you might even call what I felt a sublime nihility.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“At twenty, he had been passionately certain: there's just one thing I'm destined for and that's glory; that's right, glory! He had no idea what kind of glory he wanted, or what kind he was suited for. He knew only that in the depths of the world's darkness was a point of light which had been provided for him alone and would draw near some day to irradiate him and no other.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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