“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
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I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
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“Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?”
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“But once you have a belief system everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn't fit the belief system or get distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.”
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“I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.”
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
― Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.
I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me.”
― The Stone Gods
I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me.”
― The Stone Gods
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