May 2012
April 2012
“But I don’t understand. I don’t understand how this all happens, how we go through this. I mean, I knew her and then she’s… there’s just a body. And I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore. It’s stupid. It’s mortal and stupid. And Xander’s crying and not talking and I was having fruit punch and I thought, Joyce will never have anymore fruit punch, ever, and she’ll never have eggs, or yawn, or brush her hair. Not ever. And no one will explain to me why.”
—Anya, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - “The Body” (via thenatalierevolution)
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
—Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“I refuse to ruin a perfectly good today by thinking about a bad yesterday.”
—Linda Poindexter (via myquotelibrary)
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Myth #1: Mental illnesses are not true illnesses like cancer or heart disease.
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