i'll be a dreamer 'til the day I die
and they say, oh, how the good die young?
There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage.
Lisa Schroeder, My Secret Guide to Paris
— Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo
[text ID: but the sunflower is mine in a way.]
"If forever does exist, please let it be you...." - a.r.asher
one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.
Donna Tartt developed some of the most stoic, serious, and selfish characters I’ve ever seen. The way she made every character in the Greek Class horribly unemotional for one another, really adds to the terror of the book.
That is one reason I wish she would’ve been able to keep the initial title of the book: The God of Illusions. Because that is the backbone of this group; it’s all just an illusion of friendship, an illusion that they care. They don’t care for one another, none of them are overly concerned about anyone but themselves. They are all extremely solitary people that came together for the look of being able to have friends, rather than for the want of friendship.
The birds have vanished into the sky
and now the last cloud drains away
We sit together the mountain and me
until only the mountain remains
~ Li Po
Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)
the betrayal knows my name (2010)
You wake every morning to fight the same demons that left you so tired the night before and that my love is bravery.
~ unknown
Stop constantly burning the candle at both ends , or you will eventually be reduced to ashes.
Christine E. Szymanski.