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"Wow. I've not found a book this good since Steppenwolf or LoTR." — Mar 14, 2014 06:53PM
"Wow. I've not found a book this good since Steppenwolf or LoTR." — Mar 14, 2014 06:53PM


“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“What's the big fucking deal? Lots of amazing people have committed suicide, and they turned out alright.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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