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- “I am both worse and better than you thought.” - Sylvia Plath
- “You will always remember what you were doing / when it hurt the most.” - Ocean Vuong
- "I am full of so many flowers. I worry that no one will see them.” - Zoë Lianne
- “With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “What I have torn out of my heart, which bleeds and aches perhaps, will never be back in my heart again.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “So many tender and painful, sweet and bitter, emotions crowd in my soul” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.” - Angela Carter
- “Strange how we decorate pain.” - Margaret Atwood
- “I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.” - Kazimierz Wierzyński
- “But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.” - Haruki Murakami
- “Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.” - John Keats
- “She speaks in shadows, there are always ghosts hidden between her words.” - VàZaki Nada
- “At the time, in my twenties, I would have gone anywhere and done anything to have a life not mine.” - Lidia Yuknavitch
- “Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.” - Sylvia Plath
- “I simply can’t relax. My mind is like a brook, always running, always seeking, always murmuring. I was born with an arrow in my heart, and it is painful to pull it and it is painful to leave it.” - Kahlil Gibran
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