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Alchemised
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He wasn’t kind; he simply wasn’t cruel. He wasn’t as monstrous as he could be. And for Helena’s fracturing mind, an absence of cruelty was sufficient solace. For her starved heart, it was enough.
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“fortunately all governments will fall
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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