“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.”
“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.”
“Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?”
“Under a sky that hasn't been blue for weeks.”
“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless. Or trying to, at least. Wanting to.”
“I think you should really really be sure you love someone + that they love you back before you get into a relationship.”
“Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.”
“It's kinda cool to think about you as a real person, instead of some fetus ghost.”
“Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head.”
“Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!”
“Dar, bineînțeles, spusese el, se știe că englezii își omoară mieii de două ori: o dată când îi taie și a doua oară când îi gătesc.”
“it’s important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.”
“A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, “ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.”
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