“Anxiety, her therapist had told her many times, never killed anyone. It felt like death, but it was an illusion. A terrible illusion that inhabited your body and tried to make it its puppet. It told you nothing mattered because everything was made of fear.”
― The Hand on the Wall
― The Hand on the Wall
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“La Soleá"
All in this world has broken.
All that’s left is silence.
(Leave me in this field
weeping.)”
― The Selected Poems
All in this world has broken.
All that’s left is silence.
(Leave me in this field
weeping.)”
― The Selected Poems
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars,
but my way is lost
in the soul of the mist.
Light lops my wings.”
― The Selected Poems
a vague trembling of stars,
but my way is lost
in the soul of the mist.
Light lops my wings.”
― The Selected Poems
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