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Swan Song
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We’re going to have asshole stew tonight, folks.” “Asshole stew?” Sister asked, and frowned. “Uh ... what the hell is that?” “It means you’re a stupid asshole if you don’t eat it, because that’s all we’ve got.
“Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
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“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
― Station Eleven
“I walk and walk with cold hands.
Back at the house it is filled with longing,
nothing to carry longing away.
I look back over my life.
I try to find analogies.
There are none.
I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.
It was not this.”
―
Back at the house it is filled with longing,
nothing to carry longing away.
I look back over my life.
I try to find analogies.
There are none.
I have longed for people before, I have loved people before.
Not like this.
It was not this.”
―
“Know yourself and go in swinging.”
― More Than This
― More Than This
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