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“ I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home. ”

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If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

~ Robert Goolrick

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

~ Robert Goolrick

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

~ Robert Goolrick

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

~ Robert Goolrick