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“We are machines, all of us...
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When too much coal, too much ink, too much information is forced violently through its channels?
Why, it stutters, it chokes, finally, it shuts down.
Where do they put the broken machines?
There is only one place.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When too much coal, too much ink, too much information is forced violently through its channels?
Why, it stutters, it chokes, finally, it shuts down.
Where do they put the broken machines?
There is only one place.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“There is no suggestion box in the Psych Ward.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.”
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