#litquotes

[elephantsay]

True cruelty isn't dropping bombs on a faceless enemy, but what we are capable of doing to the ones we claim to love.

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

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[darkchocolateyoghurt]

also available on my instagram / bg art by holly warburton

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[ledelano]

#valentinesday #litquote

[wandflowerbookish]

for those with impossible dreams and for those who feel dreaming is impossible. there is so much waiting for you on the horizon.

a far wilder magic by allison saft

#a far wilder magic #book quotes #quote #books #litquotes

[pout-dracula]

Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are harder to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serene musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time.

Jeanette Winterson // Written on the Body

[pris33matic]

​“I shall try to see many things, shall go to the libraries and read; and then, when things begin to grow a little lighter inside me, I shall be at home as much as possible and gather myself around the best that I have not yet lost.” Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. August 1903 {Coming soon to @etsy} . . . . . #rubikscube #mirrorcube #pentahedron #japanesestoneware #oldfriends #bookends #etsyseller #porcelain #queernightstands #litquotes #readmorebooks #mirrorlessphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CJC5qQZnpoC/?igshid=1p6qgbfjwwdmz

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[shutterandsentence]

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

#douglas adams #hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #so long and thanks for all the fish #dolphins #intelligence #litquotes #literature #science fiction #sci fi #good books #books

[jacnaylor]

“I sang a thousand hallelujahs the moment I saw you”

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“It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was...not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it's you. It's going to be you. Game over."

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“And my soul saw you and it kind of went “There you are. I’ve been looking for you.”

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“That scares the hell out of me. From the first moment I laid eyes on you, I could never see the end.” “What scares me is I always could.”

a thousand hallelujah by the shires, you had me at hello by mhairi mcfarlane, i wrote this for you by iain thomas, farscape 4x22 “bad timing”

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[mystics-and-metaxy]

Two Men at a Table [To Dostoevsky] (1912) Erich Heckel Oil on Canvas

“I want to live, Aloysha, and I do live, even if it be against logic. Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one’s heart, out of old habit.... And I will not weep from despair, but simply because I will be happy in my shed tears. I will be drunk with my own tenderness. Sticky spring leaves, the blue sky—I love them, that’s all! Such things you love not with your mind, not with logic, but with your insides, your guts, you love your first young strength ...” 

— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 

[trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky]

#dostoevsky #erich heckel #literature #litx #expressionism #art #german expressionism #russian #russian literature #the brothers karamazov #love #quotes #litquotes #life

[timcurlyshepard]

the outsiders + the crucible

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[straightoutofanovel]

Taken from Rutger Bregman’s Utopia for Realists (and How We Can Get There)

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[elephantsay]

Dad didn't come to the wedding and I understand why. This is all too much for him. The foundations of the world he knew have been shaken. But this envelope of money is his way of being here, giving me his blessings, letting me know that I am still his son and he is still my father.

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

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[fuckyeahfranzkafka]

He looked sadly down at the street, as though it were his own bottomless sadness.

Franz Kafka, Amerika

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[ledelano]

#litquote #wednesdaywisdom

[clwalters]

Shame sits on the chair next to me and mocks me with a slap on the back. You’re an asshole, it says. And it’s right. I don’t deserve Abby’s forgiveness, but it doesn’t keep me from begging for it anyway. Somewhere in the humid jungle of my mind, the only way out of my mess is absolution through Abby even if it means having to break my own bones. “I’m so sorry, Abby. Can you forgive me?”⁣

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[keepitkoi]

Broken by Jex Lane

We have been told this war is about power and wealth, territories and survival, but it’s a lie. A terrible lie. This war is nothing more than petty revenge. 

#broken #jex lane #beautiful monsters series #BeMo #litedits #litquotes #2019