"It's like doughnut holes. Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."

- Haruki Murakami "A Wild Sheep Chase" -

"Let me ask you something. Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? I mean, do you think I’m especially not a genius?"

- Eli Cash in The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson -

"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuytbn pasdlgkhasdfasdf."

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."

"Fate is like a strange unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like."

- Lemony Snicket -

"Have been unavoidably detained by the world.
Expect us when you see us."

- Neil Gaiman "Stardust" -

"And though love is a drunk, sleeping off its hangover in the gutters between the years, you need to smile at the bitch anyway."

- pleasefindthis.blogspot -

"We must have bearers, and outriders, and
perhaps an elephant— they are so imposing, nothing says ‘Get out of the way’ quite like an
elephant in the front..."

- Neil Gaiman "Stardust" -

"Well," he said, "f’r example, if they ask where you’ve come from, you could say ‘Behind me,’
and if they asked where you’re going, you’d say ‘In front of me.’"

- Neil Gaiman "Stardust" -

"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a
person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. Thats the kind of person thats worth sticking with."

- Mac MacGuff from "Juno" -

"There are two great days in a person’s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."

- William Barclay -

"He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something
to light his fuse; but no one did, so on weekends and in the evenings he helped his father on the
farm, and during the day he worked for Mr. Brown, at Monday and Brown’s, as a clerk.''

- Neil Gaiman "Stardust" -

"nameless old german
bought for nothing on ebay
patiently teaching"

- Bill Kilpatrick -

"The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life."

- ''Love After Love'' by Derek Walcott -

“There are times when life calls out for a change, a transition. Like the seasons. Our spring was wonderful, but summer’s over now, and we missed out on autumn. And now, all of a sudden, it’s cold. It’s so cold, everything is freezing over. Our love fell asleep. And the snow took it by surprise. But if you fall asleep in the snow, you don’t feel death coming.”

- Francine, Paris Je T’aime -

"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."

-John Mason Brown-

"Something has moved and bumped the cradle of everything. The world is out of sync. Birds fly backwards and the fish swim through the air. Hours pass like seconds and seconds pass like hours. The light fades before the sun leaves. The stars shine before the night falls. I am here early. You are here late."

''We’re a city of aliens. Pretending to be people we’re not until we’re comfortable enough with each other to be who we are. So only you know who I am.''

''You buy things and you keep them clean. You take care of them. Keep them in a special pocket. Away from keys and coins. Away from other things that should be kept clean and taken care of as well. Then they get scratched. And scratched again. And again. And again. And again. Soon, you don't care about them anymore. You don't keep them in a special pocket. You throw them in the bag with everything else. They've surpassed their form and become nothing but function. People are like that. You meet them and keep them clean. In a special pocket. And then you start to scratch them. Not on purpose. Sometimes you just drop them by accident or forget which pocket they're in. But after the first scratch, it's all downhill from there. You see past their form. They become function. They are a purpose. Only their essence remains.''

- pleasefindthis.blogspot -

"Revenge may be wicked, but it's perfectly natural. "
-Vanity Fair (2004) -

“ But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly
independent and self-reliant. People who didn’t need people needed people around to
know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people. ”

— “Maskerade” by Terry Pratchett

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