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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via loveyourchaos)
(via fashionandfrivolity)
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Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.
Aravind Adiga, White Tiger (via pavorst)
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho (via moonsmoker)
(via neweyed-wilderness)
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It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.
Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs (via fleurishes)
(via reesh)
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Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via bookmania)
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Más de cien palabras, más de cien motivos
para no cortarse de un tajo las venas,
más de cien pupilas donde vernos vivos,
más de cien mentiras que valen la pena.
Joaquin sabina (via cosasveredes)
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