“It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”
― Dreamfever
― Dreamfever
“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, "Please keep me." We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?”
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“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
“It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complain very quietly to yourself about its ordinariness. You might with for something more interesting to happen, something to back of your routine, and just when you think you can't bear the monotony any longer, something comes along that shatters your life to such degree. you with with every cell in your body that your day hadn't become so unordinary.”
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