Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable – your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers – and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves. Richard Siken
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
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Jess C. Scott
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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Karl Lagerfeld
The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.
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Ashly Lorenzana
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and...
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Oscar Wilde
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it, " said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."" Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline."Oh yes, " said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And...
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Neil Gaiman
More Quotes By Richard Siken
You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt,...
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying, ”...
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
