December 2010
November 2010
When you're torn between two decisions, flip a coin; because for the brief moment that the coin is in the air, you know what you want to choose.
It’s funny how true this is.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
—The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (via jacvanek)
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning; just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.”
—C.S. Lewis (via aboutjesus)
“Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”
—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”
—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
—Carl Sagan (via crookedindifference)
Listen
sweet & low by augustana
remember that your eyes can be your enemies
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
—Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.”
—Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
