“And when we meet again and introduced as friends, please don’t let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world.”
quotes
“Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice." – Tom Perrotta, Little Children.
“Dear Diary: Heather told me she teaches people "real life.” She said, real life sucks losers dry. You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? She said, yes. I said, you’re beautiful.“ From the film Heathers.
“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.” – Charles Bukowski
Beautiful. Romantic. Comforting.
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are right now. We will never be here again.”
— Homer, The Iliad.
(via anuglybeauty)
“Like you’re riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it’s sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.” – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart.
“You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart.” – W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening.