Jay
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“I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.”
― Bright Dead Things
― Bright Dead Things
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“There's more than two to a story -- the doers, the done-tos, and the ones who interpret who's who.”
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be.”
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
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