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"Typically an author would define a phrase before utilization, but 16 pages in is great too." — Jul 15, 2026 06:17AM
"Typically an author would define a phrase before utilization, but 16 pages in is great too." — Jul 15, 2026 06:17AM
I ran away from home, too. Spent most of college making excuses not to come back for Christmas. Not because I did not love my family or was ashamed, but because it hurt too much to see up close what had happened to us over the years. And
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“She does not cry for me,” he says, his voice hardening. “She cries for her lost youth, her missed opportunities and her limited options. She does not cry for me, she cries for herself.”
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
“Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
“Blake crooned cartoonishly to mock the top 40 hits on the radio. He considered these musicians beneath him, sellouts, but his envy was so obvious to me, and I felt closer to him - and distracted from my dread - by seeing into the feelings he’d never admit to.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
“I fucked them because I liked predictable men, the guarded and repressed. Sensitive men wouldn’t be trusted; they assumed their sensitivity made them special, deserving of praise. Most sensitive men were, at their cores, narcissists who constructed elaborate expectations for how relationships were meant to evolve. When those expectations weren’t met, the facade of sensitivity deteriorated into a petulant rage.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
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