Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
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A LITTLE OF EVERTHING THAT BRINGS ME BITS OF HAPPINESS
Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.
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Saw this on Facebook and thought of Brandy for obvious reasons. :) Tried to find the source online, but couldn’t so if someone knows who’s Nanz (I think that’s the artist) please let me know so I can give the proper credits.
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You will lose what you already have if you keep seeking for more.
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Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to places where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.
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Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic…
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It never comes down to a single thing you did or didn’t do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn’t.
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