#robins quotebook

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Forgive me, for all the things I did, but mostly for the ones I did not."

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[clingonlikeclingwrap]

YJ98 as shit my friends and I have said pt. 1

Pt. 2 / Pt. 3 / Pt. 4 / Pt. 5

[elliottexists]

bbc ghosts quotebook

s1ep1: who do you think you are?

"bagsy. her. room."

"i always thought that was an owl. " "do you know what an owl sounds like?"

"hes ahead of his time." "he cant still be ahead of his time kitty"

"the garden view comes with the screaming woman!"

"wow. its like a blooming spaceship"

"yes. hed make a very fine soldier-"

"well robin...a hotel is-" "kill them."

"dammit fanny!"

"ANSWER THE QUESTION DAMN YOUR EYES"

"like a sandwich?" "a manwich."

[whatpseudonymsaid]

Teammate: I'm like Robin Hood, but I commit tax evasion.

[whimsysgeekery]

He took a deep breath that whispered into his lungs.

Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy #2)

I have to share this quote because it’s just such an interesting way to describe the particular sound of someone breathing through illness. It was such a stunning example of well-written prose that I had to share it with my husband right then and there.

In case anyone wants to see the whole context of the quote, it’s on page 347 (in my edition at least) in Chapter 17: Interludes.

[actualphysicalviolence]

"I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world."

Fernando Pessoa

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Scientists talk about dark matter; the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.9 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speech in the middle of a vast black ocean."

John Dies at the End

[actualphysicalviolence]

“ ‘Do you guys think the Gods were scared, when people looked to them?’ ‘If they weren’t, then they weren’t doing it right.’ ”

Not Another D&D Podcast

[actualphysicalviolence]

"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."

Anaïs Nin

[actualphysicalviolence]

“Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.”

Jalalud’din Rumi 

[actualphysicalviolence]

“It is not part of the cave at all. It is an endless sea of stars. Dark space, bright stars. Is this a pocket plane? Is it Heaven? Or is it just how the Gods see us, as distant specks of dust?”

Not Another D&D Podcast

[actualphysicalviolence]

“Some days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself, but as an echo of who I was.”

Ocean Vuong

[actualphysicalviolence]

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, ‘I am falling to the floor crying,’ but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it - you knew it would happen; and even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”

Richard Siken

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Let's say you've swallowed a bad thing and now it's got its hands inside you. This is the essence of love and failure."

Richard Siken

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[actualphysicalviolence]

~ Good Omens

aka, my username inspiration bc i'm him