Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Tag: words
The sadness of the past is with me always.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via percontes)
Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those
multitudes of men.
As if she all alone
made this wound in us.
Klytaimestra in Aiskhylos’s Agamemnon, translated by Anne Carson (via elucipher)
I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.
Albert Camus, The Stranger (via karavado)
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.
Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom
I probably still adore you with your hands around my neck.
505 – Arctic Monkeys
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