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Witnessing the return of Mom’s illness, it finally hit me how brainwashed I’d been, how flawed was the line of thinking that hard work and humility would save me. Those things hadn’t saved her. And no amount of pretending things might be
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“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
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“It’s amazing how much a human being can hide from another human being.”
― The Serial Killers: Jeffrey Dahmer
― The Serial Killers: Jeffrey Dahmer
“And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.”
― The Book of Promethea
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.”
― The Book of Promethea
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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