“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
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“Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“ Sorry is a useless word. It should be thrown out of the dictionary.”
― The Color of Silence
― The Color of Silence
“Who are you Jared? The man who wants to fuck me and own me, or the man who held me when I had a nightmare?”
― Jagged Edge
― Jagged Edge
“I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant”
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