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“Those days that I tried to be the little girl I was supposed to be drained me. I went home at night and cried for hours because so many people in my life expecting me to be a certain way was too much pressure, as if I'd been held against a wall and interrogated for hours, asked questions I couldn't quite answer any longer.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“When you get away with something it’s yours only, forever. Heavy and irremediable.”
― Give Me Your Hand
― Give Me Your Hand
“In the end, I'm not interested in that which I fully understand. The words I have written over the years are just a veneer. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear. What performance and song is to me is finding a way to tempt the monster to the surface, to create a space, where the creature can break through what is real and what is known to us. This shimmering space, where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live.”
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“When you see everything you realize nothing means anything.”
― God Jr.
― God Jr.
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