"I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for."
- Sally Owens (Practical Magic)
"You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk."
- The Duchess, Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
"
Goodbye, my almost lover.
Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
I’m trying not to think about you,
Can’t you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance,
My back is turned on you.
Should’ve known you’d bring me heartache,
Almost lovers always do.
- “Almost Lover,” A Fine Frenzy
"As if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact"
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
- Stephen King (via faeriefury)
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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
- Edgar Allan Poe (via elige)
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the salves of the ordinary."
- Cecil Beaton
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
-
Thoreau
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"My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
- Rumi (via elige)
"Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down.
Don’t you notice how the wheel goes ‘round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground,
Before they bring the curtain down."
- Eric Clapton (Badge)
