fred

“I’d spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn’t drip with blood every time I brushed up against something.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”
― Louis C.K.

“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”
― Franz Kafka

“Their faces I thought were knives. The way they pointed them at me. And waited. A hunter is someone who listens. So hard to his prey it pulls the weapon. Out of his hand and impales. Itself.”
― Anne Carson