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“I’ve already told the police what happened, but they don’t believe me. Why would you?’ he said.

‘Because we’re the people that believe people that other people don’t believe,’ I said.

‘How can I know that?’ he asked.

‘You’re just going to have to believe me,’ I said.”
― Ben Aaronovitch

“Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.”
― Phar West Nagle

“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.”
― Phar West Nagle