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Their white plastic earbuds override the sound of real life, their faces buried in their screens. They do not speak or make eye contact. They aren’t really here. The train is full of husks.
“You’ve got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany's
― Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Mortal beauty often makes me ache,”
― The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
― The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
“The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it’s your whole soul.”
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
― Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
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