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“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
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“Ours is not a love story—we’re too volatile, too explosive for monotony. No, our story comes with a warning. Beware”
― Born, Darkly
― Born, Darkly
“We weren’t born the day we took our first breath. We were born the moment we stole it”
― Born, Darkly
― Born, Darkly
“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind. The best kind wasn’t this soft, sweet thing of hearts and picnics. It wasn’t flowery and divine. Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d stand up for you and sacrifice. Someone who loved you would face any inconvenience willingly. You didn’t know what love was until someone was willing to give up what they loved the most for you. But it was also never letting them make that choice, either.”
― Wait for It
― Wait for It
“Isolation is not loneliness; it’s the absence of noise and distraction.”
― Born, Darkly
― Born, Darkly
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