But sometimes certain lines in books are so tragic? And usually the author doesn’t mean them to be that important, or it’s just a simple statement or a side comment, but for some reason that line just fucks you up? And it becomes the most important part of a book for you? And you review the entire book by that one line?
“I would like to learn to live finally.”— Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning (via theclassicsreader)
Gansey: *worries that adam will find out he and blue go out just the two of them to look at the stars and not kiss*
Adam: *worries gansey will find out he and ronan go out just the two of them to plan a fucking fake murder*
“Every journey starts with fear. And I could say that’s what I want to embrace now. A real experience. And I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven’t. It’s what I’m asking myself: where is the line? What is the line? There’s so much context, it can be almost impossible to find.”
Jake Gyllenhaal photographed by Mark Seliger for Details Magazine (2012)
“…this formidable enemy of hers — this other thing, this truth, this reality…”— Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse (via luthienne)
“i’m giving you my word. there’s not a lot that’s
worth much these days, but a man’s word…
that’s gotta mean something, right?”
“you said… you said… i lied.
i- i didn’t. we could’ve-
we could’ve lived… after.
after this.”
“I dream and it is another life.”— Frank Stanford, “quest of chants,” What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)
Chapter Art: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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