Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson
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People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.
John Patrick
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{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}
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"You didn't think I would save you?"
"I didn't think you would care."
"Of course I care. I've always cared."
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"The moon is full. It's really beautiful, isn't it?"
"You're not about to tell me you're a werewolf, are you?"
"What? I was trying to— just forget it."
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Different Ways to Describe Eye Colors
↳ a masterpost for writing prompts that describe eye colors
Brown Eyes
Blue Eyes
Green Eyes
Hazel Eyes
Unusual Eyes
Gray Eyes
Heterochromia Eyes
Black Eyes
White Eyes
Hazel Green Eyes
Gold/Yellow Eyes
Reddish-Brown Eyes
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"You've been weird. New levels of weird. Spooky kinds of weird. Are you possessed or something?"
"You know, I wish it was that simple."
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Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, tr. by William Jay Smith, from Translations; “Song,”
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“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood.”
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
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“I never wish to be easily defined.”
— Franz Kafka
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“We shall meet in the place where there is no more darkness.”
— George Orwell
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson (via quotemadness)
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To love your own sadness as if it were something more precious than gold is what it means to be a melancholic person. Melancholy is the intimate nature you have with your sorrow. Melancholy is the enlightenment you experience when it comes to being lost.
Juansen Dizon (via quotemadness)
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My life is made up of ‘I’m sorry’. I feel like I have to apologize to people, to things, to life itself. It’s like, ‘I’m sorry to be here’. I don’t want to disturb anyone.
Yohji Yamamoto (via quotemadness)
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A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
Alex Turner (via quotemadness)
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Dialogue Prompt #20
"Have we met before?"
"In your dreams."
"You don't have to be a dick about it."
"No, I'm serious. Haven't you noticed your dreams are a bit different yet?"
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Imagine your otp
“Damn.”
“What’s the matter?”
“Cut my lip. Nothing too bad, just stings like shit.”
“I could help with that. If your willing.”
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