“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
“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
“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
“it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less.”
― The Girl in the Spider's Web
― The Girl in the Spider's Web
“Perception is often more important than reality.”
― Run Away
― Run Away
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