“This is what they don’t tell you about losing someone: It doesn’t happen once. It happens every day, every moment they’re missing from. You lose them a hundred times between waking and sleep, and even sleep is no respite, because you lose them in your dreams, too.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“You can fall in love again with someone you're already in love with. It's like waking from a dream within a dream and finding another layer, the colors more vivid, the light more lucid, the fantasy more real. Being in love is an endless loop of waking to reverie.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“I dream of you in colors that don't exist.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Maybe we needed to break a little, so we could put ourselves back together more beautifully than before.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful. To celebrate the history of the object. What it's been through. And I was just... Thinking of us like that. My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“This world is so thick with ghosts it’s a wonder anyone can breathe.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“My love is savage and rapacious. It isn’t content to touch. It wants to be inside, crawl into the marrow, caress each vein until the cells are all mixed up and there is no you and me anymore, no secrets or shadows sliding between our skin. Only this endless devouring of each other. The ouroboros we call us.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“it’s easy to see other women as enemies. But we’re the only real allies we’ve got.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Hate is when you love someone but wish you didn't.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Water causes something to burn.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“You fall in love with it a little. Depression. It’s an abusive romance. It hurts like hell but you don’t want it to stop, because at least hurt is a feeling. At least it reminds you you’re still alive.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“If you tell a story enough times, it sounds like fiction. You don’t feel that visceral throb of resonance with the person who is you, who did the things you did.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Sometimes people set themselves up to be hurt by a situation, instead of hurting themselves directly. To absolve the blame.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Not a boy or a girl, not any binary, rigid definition of a person. Just my everything.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“This is what happens when you lie. Lies grow thin and steely and hard and become bars. Bars become a cage.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“The world looks down on you, expects nothing from you because of the color of your skin and your mother’s family name. They don’t want you to fail. They want you to not even try. If you try, you will never disappoint me.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Was that what I’d have to do? Pry my ribs open and see whose hands fit, whose fingers were stained with the same red inside me?”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“We’d never know what was real and what wasn’t about each other. That was the beauty of our shared fiction.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Most people just want to pass quietly in society. No preconceptions, no prejudices.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“I felt nothing. Do you know how much blood is soaked into every mile of asphalt, how many graves you drive over each morning on the way to work? This world is so thick with ghosts it’s a wonder anyone can breathe.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“What a strange world where we pay people to listen to our problems, and pay them to fuck themselves while we watch, and pay them to save us.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Recklessness makes you act. Bravery is following through.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Don’t lead people on. It’s cruel.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“Okay, two weaknesses. I’m still supervillain material.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“I slapped a big fake smile on my face like I did every day, as a cam girl, as a barista, as anything, because women are taught to smile, that smiling means men are less likely to hurt us.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
“I felt like an animal in a cage being stared at by other animals, all of us anonymous, mindless, interchangeable.”
― Elliot Wake, quote from Cam Girl
Elliot Wake
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“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Fallen
“Colonization would make of Germany a continental empire fit to rival the United States, another hardy frontier state based upon exterminatory colonialism and slave labor. The East was the Nazi Manifest Destiny. In Hitler’s view, “in the East a similar process will repeat itself for a second time as in the conquest of America.” As Hitler imagined the future, Germany would deal with the Slavs much as the North Americans had dealt with the Indians. The Volga River in Russia, he once proclaimed, will be Germany’s Mississippi.9”
― Timothy Snyder, quote from Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
― Plato, quote from Phaedo
“She was only a few yards from the door. If she lunged, she could be safely inside with solid metal between her and the bear. But she had called to him, and he had come. The tranquilizer dart that she had shot on the sea ice now lay in front of her. Impossibly, inexplicably, the bear had brought it back to her. She felt light-headed, and she knew she was shaking. She raised her eyes to look at the bear.
He was a mass of shadows at the edge of the station floodlights. She could make out the shape of his muzzle and the hunch of his shoulders. "Cassandra Dasent," he said. His voice was a soft rumble.
She felt as if her heart had stopped beating.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, quote from Ice
“A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a fifty-dollar saddle on a twenty-dollar horse. She’d be far better off single than riding with him.”
― Nancy E. Turner, quote from The Star Garden
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