“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Women
― Women
“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”
― The Heart of the Matter
― The Heart of the Matter
“I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.”
― Dermaphoria
― Dermaphoria
“Dear Jesus, do something.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things.”
― The Pit and the Pendulum
― The Pit and the Pendulum
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