“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”

—  Marilyn Manson

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

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American rock musician and actor 1969

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