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“Fuck forgiveness.
That’s what they want me to do. Make it easy for them. Clear their consciences. Let them get away with what they’ve done.
The powerful. The strong. The privileged.
Not a fucking chance.”
― Black Iris
That’s what they want me to do. Make it easy for them. Clear their consciences. Let them get away with what they’ve done.
The powerful. The strong. The privileged.
Not a fucking chance.”
― Black Iris
“I never wanted to be saved. I wanted someone to follow me down into the darkness.”
― Black Iris
― Black Iris
“Strength is not in the body, it’s in the mind. It doesn’t lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing. By any means. At any cost.”
― Black Iris
― Black Iris
“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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“If I could fall in love with a girl, it’d be her. Those ifs are dangerous. You try them on in your head like dresses, so easy to slide in and out of. If I kissed girls, I’d kiss her. If we kissed, it’d go like this. At some point I dropped the if like a slip and just wore the feeling, nothing between it and my skin. When I kiss her. When it happens. All of it took place in my head, in silence, locked tight in skull bone and the frantic synaptic whispers between neurons, no clues popping out except the passive-aggressive haircut, the incriminating poem.
That’s the problem with writers. Too much imagination.
The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head.”
― Black Iris
That’s the problem with writers. Too much imagination.
The greater part of me knew it couldn’t be real, but the hopeful part, which is more concentrated and condensed, rich in nine essential delusions, thought: It’s not all in your head.”
― Black Iris
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