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“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces

“We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy, Grace. Reading Harry Potter is what is right.”
― Our Chemical Hearts
― Our Chemical Hearts

“Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel as if she were drowning.”
― Foreign Fruit
― Foreign Fruit
“The Plight
Virginia Woolf put stones in her pocket
and wandered off into the sea.
My mother always said
I have rocks in my head
I wonder what will become of me?”
―
Virginia Woolf put stones in her pocket
and wandered off into the sea.
My mother always said
I have rocks in my head
I wonder what will become of me?”
―

“A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet through his own head is called a suicide; but for those who give freedom to their pitiful, soul-debasing passions in the holy days of spring and youth there is no name in man's vocabulary. After the bullet follows the peace of the grave: ruined youth is followed by years of grief and painful recollections. He who has profaned his spring will understand the present condition of my soul. I am not yet old, or grey, but I no longer live. Psychiaters tell us that a solider, who was wounded at Waterloo, went mad, and afterwards assured everybody - and believed it himself - that he had died at Waterloo, and that what was now considered to be him was only his shadow, a reflection of the past. I am now experiencing something resembling this semi-death..”
― The Shooting Party
― The Shooting Party
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