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" Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before..."
~Edgar Allan Poe
Joseph Brodsky, translated by Howard Moss, from a poem titled "I Sit By The Window,"
May Sarton, "Of Grief", Selected Poems
"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."
-from All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
— Edvard Munch (via purplebuddhaproject)
“Go and love someone exactly as they are. then, watch how they transform into the greatest truest version of themselves. when one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”
— Wes Angelozzi (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
I'm stuck somewhere between hopeless romantic and cold hearted cynic
“She wasn’t so much afraid of dying as she was of forgetting to live her life.”
Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café
“He’s rich.” When people asked how you took them, how you convinced them away from me. “He’s rich,” I’d say. “He’s rich.” And you don’t understand what the word means. They were young. They only knew appetite, and “Here,” you said, “Come with me. Gorge yourselves.” How could I compete with that? You didn’t feed them though, did you? You starved them. Less and less of them came back each time, until one day they were empty. They were syphoned. You started filling them up with… What did you fill them up with, Roderick? What did you have to fill them with? Because you weren’t rich, were you?
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | 1.08 “The Raven”
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“That's enough for you? Continued respiration? That's all you have to offer to the world? There's more to life than staying alive.”
Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group
“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“She rarely talked, and when she did, it was only about books.”
Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
— Donna Tartt
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