slaughterhouse five

"But she did look back, and I loved her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
-Photo: Stephen Shames (via)

murakami

"What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back."

-Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
-Photo: Albert Levy (via)

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a clockwork orange

' He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.'
'These are subtleties...'

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
-Photo: "In Tune" Catherine Hennessey

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.