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Shailey
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That’s how it feels here, somehow—wide awake at midnight in a strange place, duty-bound to make it work.
“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“The internet is amazing because it connects us with one another. But it’s also horrific because . . . it connects us with one another.”
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
― You're Never Weird on the Internet
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“The Fraud Police are the imaginary, terrifying force of 'real' grown-ups who you believe - at some subconscious level - are going to come knocking on your door in the middle of the night, saying:
We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You stand accused of the crime of completely winging it, you are guilty of making shit up as you go along, you do not actually deserve your job, we are taking everything away and we are TELLING EVERYBODY.”
― The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You stand accused of the crime of completely winging it, you are guilty of making shit up as you go along, you do not actually deserve your job, we are taking everything away and we are TELLING EVERYBODY.”
― The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
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— last activity Nov 06, 2014 11:33AM
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