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Martyr!
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Booze worked that way sometimes, clarifying—briefly—what his mind couldn’t. It was like sitting in the optometrist’s office, booze flashing its different lenses in front of your face and sometimes, for a second, it’d be the right
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I’ve never read a more apt description of an alcoholic’s relationship with booze.
“Sometimes grief is love unexpressed. Other times it’s regret made flesh.”
― All the Sinners Bleed
― All the Sinners Bleed
“Anybody will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Danger rarely wore a monstrous face and a wielded a pitchfork. No, danger came most often in the form of people like Edward, the nice people whose niceness only went so deep, who saved their niceness for people exactly like them, who believed they were more deserving of power and respect than anyone who was a little bit different.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“I can be mad at you and still love you, you know.” No, actually, I didn’t know that. I had no idea.”
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
― Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
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