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“I think my songs are all under the label, Emotion – love and emotion and feeling. Most of the songs I write are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain, but at the same time it’s frivolous and tongue-in-cheek.
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
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Petals on a wet black bough.”
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“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
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