August 2011
July 2011
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...
– T. S. Eliot (via lucifelle)
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
– Ernest Hemingway (via sofies-verden)
I also painted a study of a seascape, nothing but a bit of sand, sea, sky, grey...
– Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo, 17 September 1882 (source)
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out,...
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.
– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
You know, I might talk to Warner about the Silmarillion.
– [Peter Jackson] says with a wry smile. (Empire Magazine - August 2011). (via tolkienianos)
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(via faramirs)
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people...
– The Giver, Lois Lowry (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.
– Sylvia Plath (via forbiddenalleys)
In life, we are either kings or pawns of men.
– Napoléon Bonaparte, The Count of Monte Cristo (via holdenandcaulfield)