December 2010
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My year was amazing and awful.
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“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an...”
– Lik, Vladimir Nabokov (via decisioni)
“What I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that...”
– Valerie from “V for Vendetta” (via odetothemodernman)
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“You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, “that I have no heart - if that has anything to do with my memory… Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt,” said Estella, “and, of course, if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no -...
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If love were enough, she’d still be here.
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“heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (submitted by burnt-stars)
One of my all time favourite Dicken’s quotes.
I've been really ill. I still am ill....
Dear anxiety,
Go away. I’d like to leave the house tomorrow.
Thanks.
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Now to prepare myself for Jan 5th.
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Then all the dead opened their cold palms and released the snow; slow, slant, silent, a huge unsaying, it fell, torn language; settled, the world to be locked, local; unseen, fervent earthbound bees around a queen. The river grimaced and was ice.
Go nowhere- thought the dead, using the snow- but where you are, offering the flower of your breath to the white garden, or seeds to...
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I love Christmas, no, it's not the same as when I...
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It’s funny how you can be in a good mood, for once, and then someone makes one snide comment and it ruins everything. And yeah, maybe they said that because they’re having a bad day but now they’re ruined yours. This is why I really believe in ‘Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle’. You have no idea the inner turmoil that might be going on in...
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F U C K O F F
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Just spent Christmas Eve at my favourite place in the world with some of my favourite people in the world’s most Christmassy jumper.
Playbox Theatre, I love you.
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Maturity and intelligence. They can look so...
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it’s 5.21am
Why can’t I sleep these days?
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Grey's Anatomy makes me want to be a surgeon just...
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“They say my verse is sad: no wonder. It’s narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man’s. This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.”
- A. E. Housman
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That awkward moment when you realise you're going...
*A LEVEL
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“Do we punish murder with murder?
Become what we condemn?
Or do we strive to...”
– Normal, Anthony Neilson
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I am not dull enough to suppose that because you are young, gifted and well-educated, you have never known hardship or heartbreak. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the Fates…You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person’s idea of...
