“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
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