“She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.”
― Paint it Black
― Paint it Black
“Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.”
― Paint it Black
― Paint it Black
“What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me. ”
― The Rules of Attraction
― The Rules of Attraction
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe.”
― Paint it Black
― Paint it Black
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