You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. - Carolyn Parkhurst
I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
- Carolyn Parkhurst
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all. - Carolyn Parkhurst
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinit… - Carolyn Parkhurst
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinit…
I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you. - Carolyn Parkhurst
I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.
I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants. - Carolyn Parkhurst
I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value o… - Carolyn Parkhurst
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value o…
Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air. - Carolyn Parkhurst
Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. - Carolyn Parkhurst
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we thi… - Carolyn Parkhurst
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we thi…
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