May 2011
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I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and...
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via imfantasyparade)
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I thought the best thing for me is a place so different that all you got to do...
– The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
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We’re so arrogant, aren’t we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to...
– Daniel, P.S. I Love You (2007) (via meamidd)
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There was going to be a war on Earth.
He went out to peer into the sky.
Yes,...
– The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The...
– James Joyce, Dubliners (via driedbranches)
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I believe in telling the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.
– We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (via thechocolatebrigade)
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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
– The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via speakingsoftly)
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Doesn’t an old thing always know when a new thing comes?”
“I suppose so. You...
– The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
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They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more...
– The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
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Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
– Lewis Carroll (via papilione)
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But in some curious way–I wonder will you understand me?–his personality has...
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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It is good to renew one’s wonder,” said the philosopher. ...
– The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
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He was finding it hard at the moment to decide whether he wanted to be with...
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
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The week that had elapsed since he had last seen Sirius seemed to have lasted...
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter...
– Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (via dead-disco)
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One researcher observed that “hurting” and “feeling” seemed to be synonymous to...
– “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss
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The set of whole numbers is also known as “God’s numbers.”
The Devil is in the...
– “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss