a small but noteworthy note

I have seen so many young men 

over the years who think they'rerunning 

at other young men. 

They are not. 

They're running at me.

-Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
-Image: 1914-1945

beginning over again

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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unbearable lightness

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
-Photos: insertsomethingpoignant.

twilight of the idols

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
-Photo via insertsomethingpoignant.

conversation among the ruins

Fractured pillars frame prospects of rock;
While you stand heroic in coat and tie, I sit
Composed in Grecian tunic and psyche-knot.
Rooted to your black look, the play turned tragic:
With such blight wrought on our bankrupt estate.
What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?

-Sylvia Plath, "A Conversation Among the Ruins," 1956.
-Photo: Harper Smith for Fashion Gone Rogue.

a human urge for dirt

Earthbound.

It's trying to get up

that gets us down. 

-Heid E. Erdrich, "Earhbound," National Monuments (88-89).
 Photo: "Sun Over Earth (NASA, International Space Station, 07/21/03)," by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.