March 2012
73 posts
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“I feel so small like an extra in someone else’s scene
And when the...”
– Abandon Kansas, You Build A Wall
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“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
– Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno
February 2012
61 posts
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“I’m basically curious and angry, so my anger kind of fuels my curiosity and the...”
– Henry Rollins, (http://theindiespiritualist.com/2012/02/13/the-angry-truth-an-interview-with-henry-rollins/)
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“It was terrible, Theo thought, what staying awake could do to a person’s...”
– Justin Cronin, The Passage
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“As sweet as it feels, I can’t lie here forever curled up in a big ball of...”
– Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
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“It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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“Most people are blind to magic. They move though a blank and empty world....”
– Lev Grossman, The Magicians
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“We haunt ourselves, I sometimes think; or rather, we choose to be haunted.”
– John Connolly, The Lovers (via the-write-words)
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“There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless...”
– China Miéville, Kraken, 2010 (via alexmovingbackwards)
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“We live in time – it holds us and moulds us – but I’ve never felt I understood...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of An Ending
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“When you have suffered enough damage, you have a choice: you can seal off all...”
– Kevin Brockmeier, The View From The Seventh Layer (via notkings)
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“…I always did the best that I could. Which was slightly better than almost okay,...”
– Downtown Owl, Chuck Klosterman (via starryhours)
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“We each of us die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of...”
– Clive Barker, Abarat: Absolute Midnight
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart...”
– Pearl S. Buck
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“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this...”
– Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
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“It doesn’t matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all...”
– Dan Chaon, Among the Missing
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“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
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“‘What caused you this pain in your heart?’, she asked. “My eyes. I had them...”
– The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us...”
– Norman Cousins
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“Now that he’s conquered the mountain, there’s nothing to stop him from taking on...”
– Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows Of Kabul
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“I speak of the force that created the physics of the universe, the force that...”
– Chris Wooding, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
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“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
– Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes...”
– Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River
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“People always think they’ve got to be riskin’ something to get to the end of the...”
– Ania Ahlborn, Seed
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“This is the truth: We are a nation accustomed to being afraid. If I’m being...”
– Feed; Book One of the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant (via abeautifulmetaphor)
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“You didn’t need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin...”
– Greg Egan, Schild’s Ladder
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“Destruction is the beginning of all creativity. Without it, there can be no...”
– Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled
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“All houses are haunted. Some by the past or the future, some by the present.”
– Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
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“I thought that all I needed to do was forget the past, focus on the future. I...”
– Heather Gudenkauf, These Things Hidden
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“When you first heard him talking about it, you’d figure he was batshit...”
– Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff
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“I was not afraid of horror, I was afraid of beauty, of what it could do to me if...”
– Vanessa Veselka - Zazen
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“Some damage is but destructive, and other damage, through destruction, repairs.”
– Adam Levin, The Instructions
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“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too...”
– Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
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“Surviving is one thing,” he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, “but you’ve...”
– David Moody, Autumn
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“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night,...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the...”
– Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (via mischamanual)
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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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““Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”
– Haruki Murakami
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“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s...”
– Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead
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“…the best music is what you are going to listen to next.”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (2.14.12)
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“I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly column (2.14.12)
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the...”
– Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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“And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God
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“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down