September 2011
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“Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via consistentcontradiction)
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C’est triste, non?
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“I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
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foxandfayvel:
“The winter loves me,” he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, “I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” I didn’t think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false...
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Today I learned a little about being brave and the boldness of words that are not meekly holed up in the dark.
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin (via girlwithoutwings)
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“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...”
– A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
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“Education by poetry is education by metaphor.”
– “Education by Poetry” by Robert Frost
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“The areas of greater meaning are created by symbolical poems. “A...”
– “The Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry” by Laurence Perrine
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lena Horne (via anditslove)
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“But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world.”
– A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket (via disquietingwords)
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the-screaming-fangirl:
So, I just looked up “A Separate Peace” in the tags, and all I can find are people calling it the most utterly boring book ever written, with the gay subtext being the only interesting thing…
Should I question your humanity? Your maturity? Well, I’m so sorry that you can’t bear to read something with a conflicted narrative, with a message that goes beyond the actual plot....
