“I never loved you for what you did or didn’t do,” he says. “That’s not what love is.”
“People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you.”
― Mud Vein
― Mud Vein
“It’s a painful thing to look inside yourself and see the whys and the hows of your clockwork. You are a lot uglier than you think, plenty more selfish than you are ever likely to admit. So, you ignore what’s inside of you. Thinking if you don’t acknowledge it, it’s not really there. Until someone unlikely comes along and cracks you. They see every dark corner, and they get it. And they tell you it’s okay to have dark corners, instead of making you feel ashamed of them.”
― Mud Vein
― Mud Vein
“Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
― Mud Vein
― Mud Vein
“Love doesn’t leave. It bears all things.”
― Mud Vein
― Mud Vein
“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.”
― Mud Vein
then you feel bare without your chains.”
― Mud Vein
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