“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.”
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“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen, will be like. The life of the institution dominates everything. This is one of the awful truths of incarceration, the fact that the horror and the struggle and the interest of your immediate life behind prison walls drives the “real world” out of your head. That makes returning to the outside difficult for many prisoners.”
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
― Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
“Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.”
― Hopeless
― Hopeless
“I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
― 100 Love Sonnets
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