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I desire very little, but the things I do consume me.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin Not everyone knows what to do when they come across a snowflake in the desert.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin God, can he see what he’s doing to me.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin You understand what I’m telling you, Tommy? You have a light inside you, and the only person who gets to decide whether that light shines or not is you.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin I don’t deal with them. And if I don’t deal with them, I have no reason to learn their names.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin When half the town, law enforcement included, has paid the woman in question for an ‘adult evening,’ it’s almost impressive how quickly she loses credibility.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin Really see me. Then I remember who I am, and that no one wants to see the parts of me I try so hard to hide. It’s a plain fact, not something I pity.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin And you can’t outrun something you can’t see.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin It’s time to see what happens when I fly.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin I don’t want to hide. Not from you.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin My eyes shut as the fire in my lungs reaches my throat.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin If there ever was a time not to be fragile, this is it.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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