“I’m the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant.”
—Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
May 2010
“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.”
—Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.”
—Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull’s-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?”
—The Shipping News, Annie Proulx (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Peterpan: Why did you have to go away for so long?
Tinkerbell: You never gave me the reason to come back. I was always there when you needed me, but i guess you’ve never showed me how important i am in your life. Now its different, now we’ve changed, but I’m still smiling.
Peterpan: Why?
Tinkerbell: I myself don’t know the reason, its just that now.. Its your turn to miss me.
