“Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...”
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“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“The dream didn’t leave, people just don’t know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
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