May 2013
“Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via aquaticuss)
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“Because wherever I sat, on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or...”
– The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (via bewareladylazarus)
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“Tereza tried to see herself through her body. That is why, from girlhood on, she...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
“A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.”
– Sarah Kane, Crave. (via batarde)
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“In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not...”
– Virginia Woolf - On Craftsmanship
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Whenever I see Lolita being quoted in a romantic way, like the novel was this big tragic love story, I think to myself just how clever Humbert is, how he managed to fool everyone, fool us, the real people, made of flesh and blood while he is only words; how he fooled even his own author.
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“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via withmate)
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations (via violentwavesofemotion)
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“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via jealousofroses)
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“The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via rerylikes)
““Why are you afraid?” I asked myself, because fear is at the bottom of...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping (via violentwavesofemotion)
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via debourbon)
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“I decided on you, don’t you get that? I decided on you. I don’t want to go...”
– (via fawun)
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“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears?...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”
– Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena (via violentwavesofemotion)
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“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
