Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all. (William Dean Howells)
The dark leaden mask hides the devil with a soul of deceit, with his warm syrupy vacuous words coercing, enticing and grasping with exposed sharpened claws, scratching slow at his prey’s surface with bullet pointed precision, inserting the slow hot mercurial poison of falsification of love straight into the flowing veins of the succumbing vulnerable heart. The prey’s wanton escape futile, isolated & drawn into the hot fiery abyss
The dark leaden mask hides the devil with a soul of deceit, with his warm syrupy vacuous words coercing, enticing and grasping with exposed sharpened claws, scratching slow at his prey’s surface with bullet pointed precision, inserting the slow hot mercurial poison of falsification of love straight into the flowing veins of the succumbing vulnerable heart. The prey’s wanton escape futile, isolated & drawn into the hot fiery abyss (Alison Blackmore)
Music comes to me more readily than words
Music comes to me more readily than words (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me
Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me (Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures)
Let the change begin with your choices this very moment
Let the change begin with your choices this very moment (Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason)
Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future
Today’s experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future (Lailah Gifty Akita)
I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world
I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world (Joan Didion)
I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager
I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager (Gabourey Sidibe)
She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt
She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt (Samuel Beckett, The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989)
Amo stare da sola : io, i miei libri e i miei pennelli, lontana dal resto della gente che trovo sempre inutile
Amo stare da sola : io, i miei libri e i miei pennelli, lontana dal resto della gente che trovo sempre inutile (Sara Dardikh, Baci nell’ombra)