Tell me that and we’ll go. Right now. Save ourselves and leave this place to burn. Tell me that’s how you want your story to go and we’ll write it straight across the sand.
Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands (via quoted-books)
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The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via quoted-books)
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
David Foster Wallace
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Since I met you, I’ve felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.
Rudin went away. He knew by now through experience that men and women of the world do not break with a man who is of no further use to them, but simply let him drop, like a kid glove after a ball, like the paper that has wrapped up sweets, like an unsuccessful ticket for a lottery.
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev (via madamemarmot)
It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
The useless days will add up to something… These things are your becoming.
Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: advice on love and life from Dear Sugar
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Albert Camus
Do you ever want to walk away from your life? Do you ever think this life is not exactly what you had planned? Do you ever crave something, anything that could wake you up?
Elizabeth Flock, Sleepwalking in Daylight (via simply-quotes)
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