“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
―
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.”
―
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.”
―
―
“Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”
― The Terror
― The Terror
“Now I’m
sober and I
realize, I
didn’t drink to
escape the world,
I drank to escape
myself”
― Crushed Black Velvet
sober and I
realize, I
didn’t drink to
escape the world,
I drank to escape
myself”
― Crushed Black Velvet
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