“If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“We are machines, all of us...
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When too much coal, too much ink, too much information is forced violently through its channels?
Why, it stutters, it chokes, finally, it shuts down.
Where do they put the broken machines?
There is only one place.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
And what does a machine do when too much is assigned to it? When too much coal, too much ink, too much information is forced violently through its channels?
Why, it stutters, it chokes, finally, it shuts down.
Where do they put the broken machines?
There is only one place.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier...”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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