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I thought maybe that was a good philosophy for life. Experiment with your colours, but don’t experiment too much, or you’ll destroy the natural beauty.
Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken.
She was strong in a way Mum wasn’t, strong through love and kindness rather than cruelty and control.
“Skin is important, Lille. Some marks last forever. You have to decide if they’re worth it.” My eyes flickered back and forth between
Life twists some of us in strange ways, ways that shape us to always be alone, and I’m one of them.”
Shakespeare in his dirty talk? I died. I died dead.
I think that in the space between birth and death you can have one life, or you can have many. But in order to have many, you also need the strength to end the one that came before. And there lies the tricky part. In the old life you might have been face down in the dirt, but that dirt held a seductive quality that kept you in its grasp.
“We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”
