“In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“You live in a world of machines and you dream of things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.”
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“...but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.”
― Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
― Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
“It was not warm and not cold. There was no wind and the sky was very low and grey but it wasn't raining. It was like they'd completely run out of weather.”
― Incendiary
― Incendiary
“I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I'll speak and share and fuck and love, and I will never apologise for it. I am amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you.”
― The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
― The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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