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wanted to be caught in a beam of sunlight looking elegant and melancholy, possibly writing a poem at the same time. I tried this for years and it took me until my mid-twenties to realise that it’s strictly for short women.
“So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you're under appreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But there is no better job in the world.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
“The great man say that life is pain,” Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. “That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit’ it. Now, if that ain’t the blues, I don’t know what is.”
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“But we all have something wrong with us anyway, don’t we?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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