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“You never know when you’ll be in need of them you’ve despised.”

“He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.”

“all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only”

“But was refusing to put his own death in the hands of another really the same as being attached to life?”

“She’s falling for you, which means she’ll inevitably end up killing you”

“I told him I was still afraid. He smiled broadly, waiting for the punch line.”

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, ‘I know this feeling. I was here before’”

“sounds like a boring life.”
“I hope it lasts forever.”

“only the dead stay 17 forever”

“lay down. lay down and wait like an animal.”

“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.”

can a guy not grieve in his own way goddamn 😭

“they each shook hands with me as they filed out - as if this night had sealed a bond of intimacy between us, even though we hadn’t exchanged a single word.”

“there are such beautiful ruins everywhere in the mountains here, they make me think I have to become that beautiful myself”

Kafka was definitely autistic

“I wasn’t much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And hovering about there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”

i hate kafka highkey