“Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade.”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
“The west you talk about doesn’t exist. It’s a fairytale, a fantasy you sell yourself because the alternative is to admit that you are the least important character in your own story. You invent an entire world because your conscience demands it, you invent good people and bad people and you draw a neat line between them because your simplistic morality demands it. But the two kinds of people in this world are not good and bad, they are engines and fuel. Go ahead, change your country, change your name, change your accent, pull the skin right off your bones, but in their eyes they will always be the engines and you will always, always be fuel.”
― What Strange Paradise
― What Strange Paradise
“Folks like to talk about revenge like it’s a righteous thing but it’s just hate in a nicer suit,”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
“He needed your love then. Not now that he's in the ground”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
“When the people you love are gone, it's the things they've touched that keep them alive in your mind”
― Razorblade Tears
― Razorblade Tears
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