“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“We are all just ghosts of the people we hoped that we were and counterfeit replicas of the people we wanted to be.”
― Sometimes I Lie
― Sometimes I Lie
“Perception is often more important than reality.”
― Run Away
― Run Away
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