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"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM
“You’re named after the amaranth flower. Love-lies-bleeding, if you’re poetic. Or depressed. I see very little difference between the two.”
“I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.”
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
― Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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