“As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.”
― Message in a Bottle
― Message in a Bottle
“Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it around my neck so it's like a Superman cape, take off my shoes so I can slide across the room, and...get a fake mic, like a celery stick or a pen, and I play any record that features the vocalist Ronnie James Dio. And you can just pretend you're Dio, because on every album he does, he has minimum one, usually three, *EVIL WOMAN LOOK OUT!*- songs. And if you wanna point like Dio, it's a three-finger point. (heavy metal voice) 'The exit is that way. Evil LURKS! Evil lurks in twilight! Dances in the DARK! Evil woman! Just WALK AWAY!”
― The Portable Henry Rollins
― The Portable Henry Rollins
“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
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“I was fine before you came into my life. And I bet I’ll be just fine without you in it again.”
― Restart
― Restart
“As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night’s velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
into the night’s velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
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