December 2010
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Quote on Stories!
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some...
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Quote!
“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
- Fragile Things
Neil Gaiman
“There would be no sequel to the sadness.”
– The People of Paper, by Salvador Plascencia (via the-final-sentence)
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Nice Lines
No, fly me, fly me, far as pole from pole;Rise Alps between us! and whole oceans roll!Ah, come not, write not, think not once of me,Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee - Eloisa to Abelard
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Nice Lines!
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d - Eloisa to Abelard
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads...”
– Woody Allen (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not,
and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
1234melvin:
Linkin Park - Burning in the Skies
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“The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the...”
– Barbara De Angelis (via kari-shma)
soupsoup:
John Lennon : Jealous Guy
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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we...”
– Albert Camus (via tobia)
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“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness...”
– House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (via thechocolatebrigade)