“He had to take sleep by surprise. Preparing for bed simply alerted insomnia, brought all the busy thoughts, the renegade remorses and guilts and recriminations.”
― Zod Wallop
― Zod Wallop
“I never answered your question, if I’d ever thought about being human. Once. I was on a track in the andes, and a hummingbird flew up to me and just hovered there staring at me. Its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun… And I thought, ‘what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive, to be constantly on the verge of death, and how satisfying every day must be that it survived…’ And that was the only time I thought about being human.”
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“The mistake most of us make is that we build our homes in other people in the hope that they will deem us worthy of being welcomed inside. We feel so abandoned and empty when people leave, because we’ve invested so much of ourselves in them.”
― Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
― Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
“I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“I can't keep writing about just the rainbows, sunshine and those calm oceans. All that thunder, pain, demons, and chaos have their own beauty too. The moment my pen starts bleeding from the same end, where it was spilling the stars too. All I can do is sit in silence and witness how it starts placing the darkest demons around the same paradise it had built till now.”
― The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
― The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
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