“I don’t suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don’t have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear.”

- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Furyshe has languages to spare. Spanish, the ( Read more... )

“I know there was something before you. I just can’t remember what it was.”

-Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

- Love Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

- Ray Bradbury

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- goddamn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

( the south wall was missing )

“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”

- Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

- Tennessee Williams

( all five feet and four inches of her )

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”

- Raymond Chandler

( the litany of Spanish came softly )

“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.”

- J.D. Salinger

( nothing aligns )

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