what if i told you: you don’t need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself.
“On a scale from one to ‘invade Russia in winter,’ how stupid is this plan?”
― Artemis
― Artemis
“All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn’t worked out as I’d planned didn’t mean things couldn’t work out at all.”
― My Sister's Grave
― My Sister's Grave
“I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”
― Mosquitoland
― Mosquitoland
“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
― Sing, Unburied, Sing
“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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