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#1

“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /
when I’m not being touched.”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

tags: loneliness, lonely-people, longing, love, love-quotes

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#2

“To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

tags: loneliness, loneliness-quotes, lonely, lonely-people, lonely-quotes

28 likes

#3

“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,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

tags: crying, love, regret

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#4

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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#5

“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”
― richard siken

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#6

“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”
― Richard Siken

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#7

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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#9

“I woke up in the morning and I didn’t want anything, didn’t do anything, couldn’t do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush
through me and it never made any sense, anything.”
― Richard Siken

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#10

“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.”
― Roman Payne

tags: adolescence, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, growing-up, memories, roman-payne, roman-payne-quote, teen, teenage-love, teenagers, teens, youth

14 likes

#11

“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”
― Alice Walker

tags: fatherhood, fathers, fathers-and-daughters, feminism, girlhood

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#12

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adolescence, adolescent, adult, adulthood, aphorism, aphorisms, babyish, boy, boyhood, boyhoods, boys, childish, childishness, develop, development, foolish, girl, girlhood, girlhoods, girls, humor, humour, immature, immaturity, inane, infantile, irresponsibility, irresponsible, jejune, juvenile, man, mature, maturity, men, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, responsibilities, responsibility, responsible, satire, silly, woman, women

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#13

“But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking light coming off the TV, there is a space, an empty space, between us, around us, inside us, that inevitable, desperate, begs to be filled up. And nothing, not shame, not God, not a new microwave, not a wide-screen TV or that new diet with grapefruits, can ever, ever fill it.
Underneath all that white noise there's a lack.”
― Andrea Portes, Hick

tags: america, emptiness, southern-gothic

13 likes

#14

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox

tags: abuse, bullying, courage, dignity, saving-milly, self-esteem, strength

1226 likes

#15

“The silence was killing me.

And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.”
― J. Lynn, Wait for You

tags: rape, sexual-abuse, sexual-assault, silence

70 likes

#16

“But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate.”
― Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child

tags: freydis-eiriksdottir, historical, murderer, vikings, warrior-women

2 likes

#17

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
― Antonio Porchia

tags: awareness, emptiness, growth, void

296 likes

#18

“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”
― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations

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#19

“It may surprise you to know this, but there are children--some of them teenage boys, just like you--who actually carry on open, honest conversations with their mothers."
"I find it very hard to believe that there are other teenage boys just like me." I finished my cereal and stood up. "I also find it a little terrifying.”
― Dan Wells, I Don't Want to Kill You

tags: demon, funny, john-cleaver, serial-killer, sociopath

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#20

“The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards."

Hellbound”
― David McCaffrey

tags: death-penalty, retribution, serial-killer, thriller

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#21

“The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.”
― Caroline Mitchell, Don't Turn Around

tags: fiction-novel, serial-killer, thriller

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#22

“I've heard some stupid questions in my life. Usually they come in clusters: Why do you have that gun? What are you doing? Are you going to kill me? Uh, duh. I'm sure as hell not going to shoot myself.”
― J.M. Darhower, Menace

tags: gun, serial-killer, stupid

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#23

“There is sometimes a fine line between a cop and a criminal. What drives their personality may be the same, and they have simply chosen different roles and professions to call their own."

Dr. ML Rapier PhD, Clinical Psychologist.”
― Dr. ML Rapier PhD

tags: action, crime, dark-humor, kosovo, military, police, realistic-fiction, serial-killer, thriller, torture

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#24

“You know, Sir Devlan. Many women might find the quiet type endearing," I say. "I admit, a man of few words has an attractive quality." His head turns toward me. "But seeing how you're one of the few people I have to converse with, your lack of conversational skills can be obnoxious.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Fireblood

tags: devlan, fireblood, zara

6 likes

#25

“We weren’t born the day we took our first breath. We were born the moment we stole it”
― Trisha Wolfe, Born, Darkly

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#26

“Love and obsession are so closely linked, the emotions evoked by obsession easily mistaken for love. And when obsession rules your world, you become a slave to its demands.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Born, Madly

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#27

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another’s individuality.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

tags: bad-parents, family, individuality

59 likes

#28

“Nothing is ever certain.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

842 likes

#29

“Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: the-lovely-bones

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#30

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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