Shattered Illusions
Leigh Hershkovich
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.”
“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.”
“I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion.”
“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”
“The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.”
“I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every voice that ever told me that I cannot achieve has, at this moment, become silenced. This cell is no longer my home.”
“I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person's problems, automatically feel the need to salve their pain, so you make it your own. After a while, it no longer matters if the problem was yours to begin with. You absorb their pain into your body, your blood stream, your soul. It becomes yours.”
“We weren't perfect for each other- I knew that then as much as I know it now- but we worked together around our problems, mainly avoiding them, though to us that was the best way. We snuck around our problems like criminals in the night. But, aren't we all criminals in love?”
“Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.”
“Instead of channeling passion through my fingertips, I summoned the courage to channel it through my eyes.”
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