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“I said, I’m here to kill myself,” Phoebe repeats, more firmly this time. It feels good to say it out loud. If she can’t say it aloud, then she probably won’t be able to do it. And she has to do it. She has decided. She has come all this
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“Because my uncle never killed himself—but simply died, on purpose.”
― Time is a Mother
― Time is a Mother
“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to.”
― Rage the Night
― Rage the Night
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Crewe Train
― Crewe Train
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