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  • #1
    Arthur Golden
    “Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #2
    Arthur Golden
    “Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #3
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”
    Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity

  • #4
    Evelyn Waugh
    “It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #5
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #6
    Evelyn Waugh
    “I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #7
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #8
    Evelyn Waugh
    “He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #9
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #10
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

  • #11
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #14
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #15
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  • #18
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
    'How pleasant then to be insane!”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #20
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • #21
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

  • #22
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

  • #23
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #24
    Warsan Shire
    “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #25
    Warsan Shire
    “later that night
    i held an atlas in my lap
    ran my fingers across the whole world
    and whispered
    where does it hurt?

    it answered
    everywhere
    everywhere
    everywhere.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #26
    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #27
    Warsan Shire
    “With you, intimacy colours my voice.
    even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
    Warsan Shire
    tags: love

  • #28
    Warsan Shire
    “We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #29
    T.S. Eliot
    “Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?
    In a minute there is time
    For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #30
    T.S. Eliot
    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
    T.S. Eliot



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