Mina's Window

"Gratia Dei, sum quod sum."

[minaswindow]

"You take a man that likes to walk, a man like me, a man's been walking in the streets going on ten or twelve years, and all those years hes got his eye out for one person, and nobody's ever her, dont it stand to reason shes not there? I see pieces of her all the time, a flat little bottom, any skinny girl that walks fast and straight...

[minaswindow]

"It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is in invisible to the eye."

[minaswindow]

"All of life, Orhan realises, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference."

[minaswindow]

"They leave the old man face down in his open grave, his left ear and cheek pressed to the earth, listening for God's apology."

[minaswindow]

"Orhan realizes [...] that the true subject of these photos is the melancholy that lurks mysteriously in each and every image. There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart."

[mysharona1987]

Part of the appeal of the Brontë siblings is how vastly different their personalities were, though.

Hermit Emily: “I don’t want to deal with the outside world. I prefer living in my wild fantasies.”

Sensible Anne: “Maybe we should try living in the outside world? We could give it a go, I guess?”  

Ambitious Charlotte: “The outside world has to know about our books and our genius!”

Drunken Branwell: *gets drunk” 

[minaswindow]

"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortned their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

[minaswindow]

"I would sit in Old North Church and pray forthrightly to that painting of Jesus. I'd ask it to please give me peace of mind, or a sign that God existed, something i could grab hold of to steady myself against the assault of my nerves."

[minaswindow]

"Myself and fear were born twins."

[minaswindow]

"Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety in its severe forms."

[minaswindow]

Since the moment you were born

You ve been fighting life

So you could reach your death

In safety

[minaswindow]

"And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me, I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased."

~The Phantom Of the Opera

[minaswindow]

"Her emotional problems seem to come in waves, like seaweed tossed around in the ocean, and she's never found a safe, calm shore to rest on."

[minaswindow]

"He had put in a good four hours of television a day. It was his way of stopping thinking and being himself."

[minaswindow]

Give me strength to go on

[minaswindow]

"I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time."

[flowury]

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