Bearnecessi.tea

Emotions and Aesthetics that Remind and Inspire.

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Luke Beard

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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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"Love is volatile. Recalcitrant. Irrepressible. We do our best to tame it, to name it and plan for it and maybe even to contain it between the hours of six and twelve, or if you're Parisian five and seven, but like much of what is adorable and irresistible in this world it eventually tears free of you and, yes, sometimes you get scratched up in the process. It's human nature to try to impose order and form on even the most defiantly chaotic and amorphous stuff of life. Some of us do it by drafting laws, or by painting lines on the road, or by damming rivers or isolating isotopes or building a better bra. Some of us wage wars. Others write books. The most delusional ones write books. We have very little choice other than to spend our waking hours trying to sort out and make sense of the perennial pandemonium. To forge patterns and proportions where they don't actually exist. And it is this same urge, this mania to tame and possess - this necessary folly - that sparks and sustains love. "

- Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry.

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"... and he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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"... and it is always easier to believe what you already think than to try and change your mind."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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"Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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"And that, he sometimes felt, was why he loved being high so much: not because it offered an escape from everyday life, as so many people thought, but because it made everyday life seem less everyday. For a brief period - briefer and briefer with each week - the world was splendid and unknown. "

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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“You wanted love and expected what? A parachute? Morphine? A gold sticker star?”

— Young, Dean. “Handy Guide.“

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"Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

[books-n-quotes]

“I really don’t know what I love you means. I think it means Don’t leave me here alone.”

— Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade (via books-n-quotes)

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"Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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"And then you would go get a real job, and acting and your dreams for a career in it would recede into the evening, a melting into history as quiet as a briquette of ice sliding into a warm bath."

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life.

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"By refusing to admit that I was sick, I felt I could keep the sickness outside time and space, something only in my own head. If other people knew about it, the sickness would become real and I would have to spend my life being a sick person. This could only interfere with my other ambitions, such as achieving enlightenment and being a fun girl." - Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends.

[books-n-quotes]

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (via books-n-quotes)

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“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via books-n-quotes)