December 2011
November 2011
“But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”
—The Mortal Instruments
The Beautiful And Damned.
He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful — then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards. The autumn aid was between them, and the roofs and the blurred voices. Yet for a not altogether explained second, posing perversely in time, his emotion had been nearer to adoration than in the deepest kiss he had ever known.
~ Scott Fitzgerald
Men.
Want to fix you,
Save you,
Or fuck you.
I can’t be fixed.
And I don’t care to be saved.
~ Jeanann Verlee
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
—Sylvia Plath
for us. thank you.
:]
mine too.
Hope it gets better for you.
Brave New World.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
~ Aldous Huxley
“My heart is so tired.”
—Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tikun Olam.
- Norah: There’s this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Olam. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find them and put them back together.
- Nick: Maybe we don’t have to find it. Maybe we are the pieces.
