Evil is not darkness, it is noise. It crowds out possibility, which is to say it crowds out silence. History is full of it, it says that no one listens.
I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. --Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing
❝ How sad and strange we all are ❞ — Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
❝ The pain of an injury is over in seconds. Everything that comes after is the pain of getting well. I'd forgotten, you seen. Coming back to life. . .it hurts. ❞ ‒ Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue
❝ Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes, you had to dig it up because that too, was the only way. ❞ ‒ Ann Aguirre, Hell Fire
"I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Everything is said and done Everyone has had their fun Time to make my exit from this fairytale My departure was foreseen From the very beginning A sure life of insanity Sayonara
I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily.
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