“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
― The Angels Are Here
― The Angels Are Here
“Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
―
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
―
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever."
The Joker”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
The Joker”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
“She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.”
―
―
“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”
― Dust & Decay
― Dust & Decay
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