October 11, 2011
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via bleedingwordswordswords)

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October 8, 2011
"It was the rush and roar of the rain that he typified, and it stopped him, for no voice could be heard in it. A memorable storm of thunder and lightening broke with that sweep of water, and there was not a moment’s interval in crash, and fire, and rain, until the moon rose at midnight."

—  Charles Dickens (via impaledsiilence)

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October 2, 2011
"Look at us, running around. Always rushed, always late. I guess that’s why they call it the human race. What we crave most in this world is connection. For some people it happens at first site. It’s when you know you know. It’s fate working its magic. And that’s great for them. They get to live in a pop song. Ride the express train. But that’s not the way it really works. For the rest of us, it’s a bit less romantic. It’s complicated, it’s messy. It’s about horrible timing, and fumbled opportunities. And not being able to say what you need to say when you need to say it. At least, that’s the way it was for me."

— The Switch (via atomos)

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September 30, 2011
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. It’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create."

— Chuck Palahniuk (via atomos)

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September 29, 2011
"You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You’ll care only about the darkness and you’ll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you’re some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you’ll be afraid to look away, you’ll be afraid to sleep."

—  Mark Z. Danielewski (via impaledsiilence)

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September 29, 2011
"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

— Albert Einstein (via decrepito)

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September 28, 2011
"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."

— J.D. Salinger (via atomos)

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September 28, 2011
"All my life I’ve felt on the outside wherever I am, out of the picture, the conversation, at one remove, as though I was the only one able to hear the sounds or words that others can’t and deaf to the words that they seem to hear. As if I’m outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window."

— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me  (via thelittlephilosopher)

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September 28, 2011
"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

— Robert Frost (via cheesegasm)

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September 26, 2011
"After you’re dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what’s going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don’t count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you’re really alive."

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-Douglas Coupland (via impaledsiilence)

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