“There has to be a balance, Vin,” he said. “Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between who we wish to be and who we need to be.” He sighed. “But for now,” he said, nodding to the side, “we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
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“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I put my face to the window so nobody would see, if I tore up. Was this me now, for life? Taking up space where people wished I wasn’t? Once on a time I was something, and then I turned, like sour milk. The dead junkie’s kid. A rotten little piece of American pie that everybody wishes could just be, you know. Removed.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Sometimes I feel like I'm just waiting for something that will never happen," he said. "Like I'm just existing from day to day but will never really matter. I get up in the morning because I have to, because I have to do something or I'm just wasting space, or because if I don' answer the phone my dad will he alone. But it's an effort, it takes work. I have to tell myself, every day, get up. Get up, do this, move like this, talk to people, be normal, try to be social, be nice, be patient. On the inside I just feel like, I don't know, nothing. Like I'm just an algorithm that someone put in place.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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