Pushing out a breath, I lean against the wall and slide to the floor. I sit beside her for as long as it takes. Listening until her sobs fade and the shower turns on.
T.L. MARTINEva’s an enigma, and she’s my enigma. My secret. My lifeline.
More T.L. Martin Quotes
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He was unhinged. Shameless. Everything wrong and everything right. And he held the key to my cage in his palm.
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You will eventually lose control, and when you do – when you lose every last shred of it until you can’t see red from black, right from wrong – I will be here. Ready to back you up, the way you should be doing for me.
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Crawl inside this body, find me where I am most ruined – love me there.
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
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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.
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I quickly learned I needed someone who specifically enjoyed, or at the very least could take it, when I hit that point of blinding release. Every time, I lost all sense of the control I work so hard at maintaining.
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And you can’t outrun something you can’t see.
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Today, I painted with blood.
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My eyes shut as the fire in my lungs reaches my throat.
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Be you. All of you. Without consequence. Without judgment.
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Instead of ignorance, I tasted what it might be like to finally be me. I didn’t give a show this time. I had no plan, no calculations. No scolding voice inside my head. For a little while, I was free.
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Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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Art is a private piece of me.
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I may be unhinged, but I’m constantly working to channel my urges. It never stops, the self-restraint, the need for more.
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