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“it occurs to me that I was right, dreams are just like stray cats: if you don’t feed them they get mean and clever and sharp clawed, and come for the jugular when you least expect it.”

“Looking at them, felt like stepping into someone else’s skull. Someone who knew the things that I knew: that they were sharp teeth behind every smile and bare bones, waiting beneath the pretty skin of the world.”

“there would be no point! Madeline’s aren’t the way they used to be.” “nothing is the way it used to be.”

“-I was able to disappear to the armchair near the fireplace and practice the only two skills I really ever mastered: keeping quiet and adapting myself to my environment.”

“For a man so light on his feet, he made a lot of noise walking out of my life.”

“Getting married on top of secrets is like spraying perfume without washing first.”

“The rainbow is bending my way, but I can smell the devastation in the air.” / “she told me she cut it off and burned the field so it wouldn’t grow back, but what is done in the dark will always come into the light.”

“When a girl is a little stormy, a man like me wants to follow behind you with an open umbrella; but I am exhausted now, and wet.”

“Nobody likes their job, that’s why they pay you to be there.”

“You got a whole river running off a cliff inside you. You need to cry the regular way, to get you some relief; tears are meant to flow outward. / I can’t (show you) any more than I can teach you how to breathe, or how to love.”

“This woman’s kindness was more devastating than any snark.”

I need this potato salsa recipe

this scene is very much giving “So this is your opinion of me? Thank you for explaining
so fully. Perhaps these offences
might have been overlooked, if
your pride had not been hurt-“ and I’m living

“Only boring to some who can’t appreciate it- can’t appreciate you.”

dinner can wait, let me nerd about the animals

Correct me if I’m wrong… but is that alphabet soup I smell?

Carnivorous horses are the most terrifying creation I’ve ever heard of

“I decided on doing a version of foreplay that required no form of physical contact: I showed them my favorite YouTube videos to gauge his reactions to see if he understood the true complexities my being.” real

“is being sober low-key more fun than being drunk?”

“name one thing about me.”

“Maybe I’m just a sucker for a happy ending.”

that’s a wild thing to say…. an even wilder thing to say “same” to….

Hazel Hayes you are a heartbreaking writer

“I hate that word. I hate the idea that anyone would describe me or my work as “nice”. I’d rather be loved and loathed in equal measure than for anyone to just tolerate me.”

“I feel like my sadness is contagious and I want to take it as far away from these perfect people as I can.”

“-someone calm and kind, who doesn’t flap in the face of adversity; I keep ending up with flappers? But then again I keep choosing them.”

OKAPI MENTION

TW for violent intrusive thoughts

“Imagine being so exhilarated by someone that a view of Paris seems pale in comparison”

“ sometimes, people can’t even see they have a problem, they confuse what’s right with what comfortable”