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“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Nothing new can happen here, so all you do is think about the days of life when possibility hadn't been ripped from you forever, when anything could happen, and wonder why so much was squandered, so much wasted.”
― Praying Drunk
― Praying Drunk
“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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