I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small
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“loneliness was better than disappointment.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain.
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
It’s not a happy love.
It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“don’t have words for mourning people when their souls leave us long before their body is gone.”
― Home of the American Circus
― Home of the American Circus
“Emotions have a way of collecting and hardening inside us, like neglected grease. We are all smoking stoves.”
― They're Going to Love You
― They're Going to Love You
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