“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”
― Candy
― Candy
“I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.”
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
― Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“I am so far removed, from everything, that I can’t even cry. There’s a chasm between me, where I am, and the world I am in. The world I move my feet through. The atmosphere I breathe is like golden syrup, twenty-seven atmospheres thick. I’m wading through the world, consumed with … consumed. And I’m wading through the swamp that my body has become.”
― Candy
― Candy
“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”
― Candy
― Candy
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