Batphone

[aridante]

ophelia, friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser // ophelia, jean-baptiste bertrand // ophelia, sir john everett millais // ophelia, léopold burthe // ophelia, theodor von der beek.

[thesadandterriblejoxworld]

[apurplestate]

[apurplestate]

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Lunar Eclipse

Image Credit: Tomas Slovinsky

[yourlocalnymphh]

Zainab Aamir

[apurplestate]

[quoted-books]

“‘If I showed you what was in my heart,’ she said, 'it would burn you to a cinder. - 'I’ve tried to burn you similarly,’ it said, “but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.’”

— Chris Adrian, The Children’s Hospital

[quoted-books]

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”

— Veronica Roth, Insurgent

[quoted-books]

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”

— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium 

[observando]

My soul will find yours.

-Jude Deveraux

[observando]

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

-Milan Kundera

[apurplestate]

Suppose you've gotta do what you've gotta do

We just weren't feelin' how we wanted to

You sit and try sometimes

But you just can't figure out what went wrong

Then out of nowhere, somebody comes and hits you with a

Ooh la la la, ooh la la la

Ooh la la la, ooh

Ooh la la la, ooh la la la

Ooh la la la, ooh

You got those mad sounds, in your ears

To make you get up and dance

Mad sounds, in your ears

They make you get up and dance

Hold on to make you get up

Ah, yeah, they make you get up

[apurplestate]

Now, let us drink.

Let us drink.

Drink to the human race.

In every age, there will be good humans and bad humans.

Human life is too long to devote to reproduction, yet too short to devote to learning, in the helix of time.

Perhaps that is why humans succumb to desire and seek release.

Despite the fact that life is complete with the sun, the land, and the poetry.

Come. Let us raise a glass.

Let us drink... ...to this creature called man.

Good and evil repeat in an endless cycle...

...on the spiral of time, where a lifetime is far too long for peace yet far too short for war.

That is why they yearn. That is why they foster.

If only they knew... ...that all one needs in life is the sun, the soil and poetry.

[apurplestate]

If you want to know what makes me sad

Well it's hope, the endurance of faith

A battle that lasts a lifetime

A fight that never ends

[daughterofliterature-deactivate]

—Thomas Merton

(The photo isn’t mine. credit to owner.)

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