#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 / Pt. 6

[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've polished this anger and now it's a knife."

Cathy Linh Che, Go Forget Your Father

[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]

"Many people, upon meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

Good Omens

[actualphysicalviolence]

"I did not want to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break."

Marya Hornbacher

[actualphysicalviolence]

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what."

House M.D.

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Every minute of every day we choose. Who we are. Who we forgive. Who we defend and protect. To choose a side or to walk the line. To play the middle. To straddle the fence between what is and what should be."

The X Files

[actualphysicalviolence]

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anaïs Nin

[actualphysicalviolence]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

Christa Wolf

[actualphysicalviolence]

"I am fond of lovers but I cannot love; I am too far away, I am banished."

Franz Kafka

[actualphysicalviolence]

FRANZ KAFKA IS DEAD

He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!' They cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" They cried. Stars spilled across the black sky.

"Because then you'll stop asking for me."

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[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