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The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same
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Stunning.
“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
“loneliness was better than disappointment.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm… you will triumph.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“We are the blur in the windows of your trains and minivans, your Greyhounds, our faces mangled by wind and speed like castaway Munch paintings. The only things we share with the city are the ambulances, being close enough to Hartford for them to come fetch us when we’re near dead or rattling away on steel gurneys without next of kin. We live on the edges but die in the heart of the state. We pay taxes on every check to stand on the sinking banks of a river that becomes the morgue of our dreams.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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