“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“It’s strange to know that whenever I remember myself at fifteen, I’ll think of this.”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa
“You wouldn't make love with him, you'd make art.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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