don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like
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“Doctors in Belfast had taken to prescribing ‘nerve tablets’ – sedatives and tranquillisers – to their patients, many of whom found that they were either catatonically numb or crying uncontrollably, unable to get a handle on their emotions. Tranquilliser use was higher in Northern Ireland than anywhere else in the United Kingdom.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
― Paradise Lost
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
― Paradise Lost
“When you set a boundary, the person can either step up and start behaving better because they know they will lose you, or they don’t – and that means they are willing to take that risk. Let them lose you.”
― The Selfish Romantic: How to date without feeling bad about yourself
― The Selfish Romantic: How to date without feeling bad about yourself
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