February 2012
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“here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart”
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“We waged a war with hell, and look, we still survive. But just because we live does not mean that we’re alive. We’ve won the final round, but how to enjoy the win? When we’ve been broken down and we’ll never know what could’ve been. Heaven help us where do we begin? One foot in front of the other foot…”
-Emilie Autumn, One Foot In Front Of The Other
“Who does not remember that, at such a time as this, the eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far-off places, the woe which is close at hand?”
-Edgar Allan Poe
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
-Neil Gaiman
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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
-Franz Kafka
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“They’ve promised that dreams can come true- but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Nights are difficult for me to endure; I have too many dreadful memories still playing out inside my head like a shadow that I can never lose, and so I sleep wretchedly, clutching the shabby pink bear I know I am far too old to be sleeping with. Still, it gives me some small comfort, and I have named it Suffer, for I am sure that it has witnessed much of suffering here.”
-Emilie Autumn, The...
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“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here.”
-Sylvia Plath
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“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away, the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle… Whenever it rains you will think of her.”
-Neil Gaiman
“It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain… remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it.”
-Sylvia Plath
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WatchAh, nostalgia.
“How do you know if you’re happy or sad without a mask? or angry? or ready for desert?”
-Mirror Mask
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships — and sealing wax — of cabbages and kings.”
—Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
