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.
-gif via dishonestyouth.

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.

catherine and david (and marita too)

"He would try to work today and would almost certainly fail. There had been too much emotion, too much damage, too much of everything and his changing of allegiance, no matter how sound it had seemed, no matter how it simplified things for him, was a grave and violent thing and this letter compounded the gravity and the violence."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden.
Photos: tumblr, weheartit.