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Quotes by Andrew Davidson

What is it like to wear another person’s skin?”“I don’t have a good answer for that,” I said. “It hurts.”“Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

Talking with the mouth of a beast wont ease your pain.

I am more than my scars.

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which cant abide the fire shall go through water.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, youll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”

“There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”

“Theres a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. Its a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found its target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.”