March 2012
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I wanted to tell her many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I...
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via darkcanuck)
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or...
– Charles Dickens
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Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson (via girlwithoutwings)
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Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? But, because I knew you, I have...
– Wicked (via juneandafter)
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I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret...
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via thewalnutletters)
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes, in one dimension,...
– Anais Nin (via casimirpulaskiday)
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
– William Goldman, The Princess Bride (via larmoyante)
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The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers...
– Margaret Atwood (via decaying-organic-matter)
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and...
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)
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I can see a hundred people a day
who have given up
entirely.
– Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
– William Faulkner (via misswallflower)
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Krogstad: The law cares nothing about motives.
Nora: Then it is a very bad law.
– A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen (@monmonomnom)
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I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say...
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
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Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d...
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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That song you softly sing
is keeping you from breaking
It’s a long way...
– Belle of the Boulevard, Dashboard Confessional
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… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
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Life is too short to be all daylight. Night is not less; it’s more.
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night
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For me the postmodern attitude is that of a man who loves a woman who is...
– Umberto Eco 1983 (via clarityandchaos)
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Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
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