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  • #1
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
    Gustave Flaubert, November

  • #2
    Emily Wing Smith
    “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.”
    Emily Wing Smith, Back When You Were Easier to Love

  • #3
    Tite Kubo
    “If I were rain,
    That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
    Could I join two hearts as well?”
    Tite Kubo, Bleach, Vol. 1

  • #4
    Stephen Fry
    “Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.”
    Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

  • #5
    Stephen Fry
    “The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #6
    Stephen Fry
    “We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #7
    Stephen Fry
    “No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
    Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

  • #8
    Stephen Fry
    “Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #9
    Stephen Fry
    “Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Damien Echols
    “Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
    Damien Echols, Life After Death

  • #12
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #13
    Emily Brontë
    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
    Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

  • #14
    Emily Brontë
    “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #15
    A.S. Byatt
    “I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
    A.S. Byatt, Possession



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