#devour

My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#conciliating #devoured #infallible #method #oneself

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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