Never lose touch with what you eat, sweetheart. Touch the soil. Embrace it.


“Parker sat still, letting the last vestiges of the memory fade from his mind. They left a pleasantly lascivious residue behind. Absently, he flipped a key switch over his console. A gratifyingly green light appeared above it, held steady.”
― Alien
― Alien
“I try to remind myself of how awesome downloading music used to be. Because now it's about as thrilling as ordering paper towels from Amazon. The more convenient that downloading became, the less fun it was.”
― This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century
― This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

“day by day i realize everything i miss about you was never there in the first place”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
― The Sun and Her Flowers

“Naturally, there was nothing to say. Kane was dead. He’d been alive, now he was not alive. None of the crew were particularly strong with words.”
― Alien
― Alien

“He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant. Not to fall was too hard, too hard: and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling but not yet fallen, still unfallen but about to fall.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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