“I'll tell you a secret.
Something they don't teach you in your temple.
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
―
Something they don't teach you in your temple.
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
―
“Some would call me broken,” I say again in indifference. “But I’ve never known anything other than the comfort of my pieces.”
― That Sik Luv
― That Sik Luv
“Cowards always live to regret, because it’s only too late that they realize the journey is filled with people who are afraid.”
― Credence
― Credence
“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
― Credence
― Credence
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