Ten Days in a Mad-House: The Original 1887 Edition (Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island)
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Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
“Are you trying to suffocate me with that red flag? Or gag me with it? Jericho: We can try both and see which one makes you come first.”
― Of Monsters and Mazes
― Of Monsters and Mazes
“All souls are immortal. If you were to pass of some human deficiency, your soul would just ascend or descend to another realm where you would be prepared for rebirth. If that happens, I’ll just find you and bring you back before they’re able to perform the reset.”
― Of Monsters and Mazes
― Of Monsters and Mazes
“Bijou, Bijou, Bijou, let me be abundantly clear. Theron might show you the illusion of a nightmare, but I fucking am one.”
― Of Monsters and Mazes
― Of Monsters and Mazes
“Grief is not sorrow. Sorrow is a guest who will leave. Grief is a parasite—it latches on, it feeds, it remakes. It is a rot that eats away at you and leaves only a husk. It is the weight pressing down on my chest with every breath, my dark shadow beside me, whispering I will never be whole again.”
― Grim
― Grim
“Because I was tired of being a scalpel when I could be a stitch.”
― Grim
― Grim
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