“there are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails.”
―
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails.”
―
“my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love...
she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love...
she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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