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He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.
You may not be the happiest wife, Arion, but I’m told this is why God invented Saks and Xanax.”
Life felt like hell because we expected it to feel like heaven. The quote I read years ago went something like that, but I never understood it. When you’re in the thick all your life, living in ways you eventually figure out no one else is, you learn to sleep well in heat and eat fire. Until one day it’s all you need.
pain covers up pain, and if I feel one, I won’t feel the other.
People assumed I behaved strictly on impulse, when actually, it required quite a bit of strategy to be this fucked up.
Oh this should be fun
“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.
“You teach your daughter to hide in everyone else’s world,” I shot back, “and I’ll teach mine everyone else exists in hers. Go fuck yourself, and leave the kid alone.”
In fact, he was kind of an angel at the end. An angel with really black bat wings. Psycho.
“The only thing you’re proof of is that not all males grow up to be men.”
Being with him was like dancing. Dancing with death.
“God, you’re like a female version of me,” I said. “It’s turning me on.” “Makes sense. You love yourself best.”
People were priceless. The things we told ourselves to justify giving up and falling in line like we had to accept anything less than what we wanted. Like fighting for your dream was a bad thing.
and while we could fight for what we wanted, people couldn’t always be won.
I’d changed her forever. I’d bent and twisted and broken everything that made her the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.
“Because I was afraid of life without the hope of you to look forward to.”
“People are a blend of external and internal influences, not all controlled variables. Sometimes, just sometimes, we are who we are. Even in the sea, a snake is a snake.”
out the window, the snow fell, charging the air with a little more beauty, the animation making the earth look alive even when everything else was still. A little more pretty. A little more peaceful. A little more cover.
I wish we never had to leave the fountain. We never did.
