2,881 notes "Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter."
— Lemony Snicket (via infinitives)
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49 notes "She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."
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Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
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37 notes "If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via jordanmjacobo)
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290 notes "I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via larmoyante)
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75 notes "The past is never where you think you left it."
— Katherine Anne Porter (via 4mbivalent)
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