“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
—
Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” (via
imi-loa)
“Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.”
“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via
...
“[Here there is an altar made of sand.] It dismantles
no less than itself to please the sea.”
“I like seeing people when they can’t see me.”
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.”
— Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing
“I live on the edge of a sleepy soul, a moist rose, and an infinite lilac sky beneath my chin.”
— M. Melia, The Unravelling Travelogue
“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.”
— Haruki Murakami,
Sputnik Sweetheart (via
stxxz)
“If you can afford it, then there is no pleasure in buying it.”
— Wallis Simpson on shopping