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“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”

—	Roald Dahl

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"You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct."
-V. C. Andrews

i need to remember

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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late
or, in my case, too early
to be whoever you want to be.
There’s no time limit,
            stop whenever you want.
                   You can change
                   or stay the same,
                   there are no rules to this thing.


We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you’re not,

I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

not mine.

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That the way light
bounces off your skin
has nothing to do with who you are.

That smokers believe
they need to die a little,
just to go outside.

That art has always hated the frame you put it in
and would lash out,
kicking and screaming in the streets,
if you gave it half a chance.

That the way lovers touch
can not be communicated in words,
no matter how often or how hard you try.

That your body fights your mind
and your mind fights your soul
and your soul fights the world,
to try and figure out what you are.

That sometimes, you're just tired.
That's all.

- http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me

ideal

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with jack, with everybo(d)y

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"But with every word she was drawing

further and further

into herself,

so that he gave up,

and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away,

trying to touch what was no longer tangible,

struggling unhappily, undespairingly, towards that lost voice across the room."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Stolen

Kudos to Lily for posting this, I just stole it.

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“I wanted to kill the me underneath.
That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that

you cannot stand who you are,

and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years,

your brain can’t quite deal with it.

It will try very hard to avoid that realization;

it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. ”

—Marya Hornbacher

effy love.

Effy: You’re an idiot. [Sid nods] You’re fucking the wrong girl. [Sid nods] It’s Cassie you love. You only got mixed up with Michelle because, let’s face it, men are dicks, and there was no one else to screw, which is totally fucking pathetic. [pauses] Isn’t it?


Sid: Has anyone ever told you, Effy, this whole sneaking up on people, getting inside their head, is not cool. Ok?

Effy: I’m right, though.

Sid: You’re always right! You and your fucking brother! You’re always fucking, fucking… right.

Effy: That milk’s two weeks old.

Sid: It’s ok, I put some cocoa powder in it. It’s a bit chewy, that’s all.
 
- http://fuckingpantomime.tumblr.com/

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Who's to say that

dreams and nightmares

aren't as real as the

here and now?

-John Lennon

love

From the broad vaults and spaces you can see it all again because it never ceases to be. You can see that figure teetering out over the water, looking into your face, and you can see the crowd up on the treethick bank behind him finishing this momentous day off and getting ready to wonder where he is.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them- those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

-Cloudstreet, Tim Winton

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past present future

His small time's end. His time-
Who saw infinity through the countless cracks
In the blank skin of things, and died of it.

-A. S. Byatt, Possession

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unlucky

creative writers are more likely to be mentally unstable. or mentally unstable people are more likely to write creatively.

it doesn't matter, we all knew that. really.

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Sylvia Plath effect

The Sylvia Plath effect is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman in 2001 to refer to the phenomenon that creative writers are more susceptible to mental illness than other people. Kaufman’s work demonstrated that female poets were more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other class of writers. This finding has been discussed in many international newspapers, including the New York Times. The finding is consistent with other psychological research studies.


The effect is named after the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide when she was thirty years old.

about before

i know

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You're sad because you're sad.


It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

Go see a shrink or take a pill,

or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll

you need to sleep.

-excerpt from sad child by Margaret Atwood

definition

You say you wanna stand by my side

Darling your head's not right

I see alone we stand together we fall apart
Yeah, I think I'll be alright
I'm working so I won't have to try so hard
Tables they turn sometimes.
Oh someday.

I ain't wasting no more time.

Someday-The Strokes

thank-you

It's not our fault we're made this way

we're faulty by design

-meg and all the rest, dylan smith

honestly? sometimes i hold on to that like it's the last truth in the world

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(excuses, excuses, excuses)

where would we be without them?

buriedfed.

"And they took her to the doctor

To fix her heart, and heal her head

She said, “Goddamn, I’m tired of being polite

Go save somebody else instead”

buriedfed; miles benjamin anthony robinson

shadows

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...

He went crazy at nineteen

Said hed lost all his self esteem

And couldnt understand why he was cry, cry, crying, cryyiiing...



He would stare at empty chairs

Think of the ghosts who once sat there

The ghosts that broke his heart.

Oh the ghosts that broke my heart

The ghosts that broke his heart

Oh the ghosts that broke my heart


The ghosts the ghosts the ghosts the ghosts the ghosts the ghosts

The ghosts that broke my heart before I met you



Lover, please do not

Fall to your knees

Its not

Like I believe in

Everlasting love



He says Im so lost,

Not at all well
...


Do as done and there was nothing left to be

Turned out Id been following him and he'd been following me

Do as done after it was over

We were just two lovers crying on each others shoulder



Lover, please do not

Fall to your knees

Its not

Like I believe in

Everlasting love





-Ghosts by Laura Marling

yes

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Perhaps they are not stars but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through

                                                 

             -Old Eskimo Proverb