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“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.”
― Ursula Hegi

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe