December 2011
“New Year’s Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the...”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the...”
– Bret Easton Ellis (via seafirefmkiii)
“I lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times. I live my...”
– Fear & Loathing | Marina + The Diamonds
Porphyria's Lover.
The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,...
“It’s just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can’t do...”
– Stephen Chbosky (via 99lions)
“The agony is exquisite, is it not? A broken heart. You think you will die. But...”
– Miss Havisham, Great Expectations
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All this and Heaven too.
The heart is hard to translate, it has a language of it’s own. It talks and tongues and quietly sighs in prayers and proclamations, in the grand days of great men and the smallest of gestures, in short shallow gasps. But with all my education, I can’t seem to commend it, and the words are all escaping me and coming back all damaged, and I would put them back in poetry if I only knew...
“Dialogue is just two monologues clashing. That’s my Big Theory. It’s true in...”
– Russell T. Davies
“Good writing is basically a good understanding of people. Never mind structure...”
– Russell T Davies | The Writer’s Tale
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“The fundamental image of life, of family, of childhood, of survival, is man and...”
– Russell T Davies | The Writer’s Tale
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“My school didn’t have a condom vending machine, because they said “if we give...”
– Wil Anderson
Standardly ridiculously hungover the morning after...
“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret,...”
– Libba Bray
DESERVES AN AWARD FOR COMPARING LIFE TO CHIAROSCURO. ARTISTIC JIZZ FEST RIGHT HERE.
Back in Manchester in 12 hours.
Bittersweet excitement is the order of the day.
“I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an...”
– When Harry Met Sally (via inherdaydream)
Just watched this for the first time ever. Thought it would be some mindless, standard rom-com fare I could just have on to admire the moving images on screen…but, oh no! It was absolutely lovely.
“Got you. You’re mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have...”
– The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis
