…that is to say, of a spectral shade
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Try to look like a stray sunbeam (…). It’s such a dark day we’ve got to be a little brighter than usual.
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.
Hugh Laurie (via thiscoffeedrenchedlife)
And it was Death itself who stood behind me, with his arms wrapped around me as tight as iron bands, and his lipless mouth kissing my neck as if in love. But as well as the horror, I felt a strange longing.
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via antigonick)
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.
harry potter : last lines
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
“I worry about you seeing all that blood.
Can’t be good for your fragile womanly temperament.”“Oh? Where in a medical dictionary
does it say a woman cannot handle such things? What is a man’s soul made of
that a woman’s is not?” I teased. “I had no idea my innards were composed of
cotton and kittens, while yours were filled with steel and steam-driven parts.”
I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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It’s been said that love finds you when you’re ready.
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