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“The pleasure wasn't often pleasure; it was release from pain. It was binding yourself and feeling good when the bandages came off, it was cutting a hole in your leg so it could feel it heal. I had suffered, and I had made the suffering into something I could consider good. I made it so that suffering was a kind of work.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

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“To change any of this, we need to live.”
― Sara A. Mueller, The Bone Orchard

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“The world isn’t all towers of white marble, and it isn’t all gardens of perfectly trimmed grass,” said Pain softly. “Whether we want to look or not, we cannot escape from the world. We can retreat for awhile, but always it is there.”
― Sara A. Mueller, The Bone Orchard

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“He doesn’t deserve anything from you. Not. One. Tear. Cry for yourself. Not for him.”
― Sara A. Mueller, The Bone Orchard

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“How impoverished my internal life had become, the scrabbling for a token of love from somebody who didn’t want to offer it.”
― Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

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Face Value — 21 members — last activity Jan 08, 2022 04:04PM
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