Mairi

“Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)”
― Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes

“When I came back from death
it was morning,
the back door was open
and one of the buttons of my shirt had disappeared.”
― Derick Thomson

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.”
― Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)