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As long as you and I exist, I'll always love you.

— Queen of Air and Darkness, Cassandra Clare

Der Himmel über Berlin.

“People are weak, people are selfish. When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”

The Giver, 2014

“The Japanese have a saying: a man is whatever room he is in, and right now Donald Draper is in this room.”

“Mad man”

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: ‘Better an end with terror than a terror without end.’

Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: “This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”

Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

I had meant to take her to my favorite pastry shop after dinner. I'd known happiness there once, or maybe not happiness, but the vision of it. I wanted to see whether the place had changed at all, or whether I had changed, or whether, just by sitting with her I could make up for old loves I'd gotten so close to but had never been bold enough to seize. Always got so very close, and always turned my back when the time came.

André Aciman, Enigma Variations

I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don’t know what to do with all this hurt right now.

Nina Guilbeau