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  • Velvet.Tears.

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    "Got that gun?" Peter says to Tobias.

    "No," says Tobias, "I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs."

    "Oh, shut up."

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    From 'Insurgent' by Veronica Roth, made me laugh. Tobias can be such a smart ass but I love him. :)
    July 31st, 2012 at 11:48pm
  • Blackjack.

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    'But nobody was moving around. There were no scary shadows. Everything lay in moonlight, and I could see the smallest things.' - 'I Could See the Smallest Things' from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

    '...and when something weird happens, when you find a spider in your shoe or if you take a breath and feel like a broken window...' - 'Blow Up' from Blow Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar

    '...and it was that moment between six and seven when every flower - roses, carnations, irises, lilac - glows; white, violet, red, deep orange; every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty bed...' - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    'So on a summers day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying "that is all" more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, that is all. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall.' Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    'Mephistophelis: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
    Thinkest thou that I, who saw the face of God,
    And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
    Am not tormented with a thousand hells...
    Faustus: Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,
    And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.' - Doctor Faustus by Marlowe

    '...la terre couleur de sang qui roulait sur la biere de maman, la chair blanche des racines qui s'y melaient...' L'étranger by Albert Camus
    August 2nd, 2012 at 09:41pm
  • The Gong of Doom

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    "The world breaks everyone. And afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places."

    Earnest Hemingway

    Can't recall what story it is from but it came to mind as the perfect epigram for a Friday Night Lights fan story I was working on about what happened to Julie Taylor after Matt left. It was very, very dark and very AU, but for where I wanted to take Julie the epigram was perfect.
    August 4th, 2012 at 05:39am
  • daisyfairy

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    "we pull our boots on with both hands
    but we can't punch ourselves awake and all i can do
    is stand on the curb and say sorry
    about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine.
    "

    - Little Beast by Richard Siken.
    August 5th, 2012 at 02:49pm
  • Blackjack.

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    'Ah, yes, Shikasta, there you are again - and with an inward sigh, a summoning of forces.
    A twilight of grief, mists of hungry longing, a sucking drag of all the emotions...' - Shikasta by Doris Lessing.
    August 31st, 2012 at 08:27pm
  • the god of thunder.

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    High above the dome, at the top of the radio mast, the red aircraft-warning lamp winked in the gray mist, as if the storm were a living beast and this were its malevolent Cyclopean eye.
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    When he shot her twice in the back, he half expected her to shatter into bone splinters and dust, as if she were an ancient mummy made brittle by two centuries of dehydration, but she only dropped in a pale, angular heap.
    - Dean Koontz's The Face.
    In Love
    September 3rd, 2012 at 02:40am
  • tempest.

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    When I saw Old Mama Maltese holding her eyes shut with the lids quivering and smell away into the air, I knew she was on the scent of her second one. When she brought it in, I dug the second little grave, I was listening to her moan and choke in the weeds, dragging her belly across the ground with her two back legs timber behind her. Pulling her body with her front feet and throwing her head first to one side then the other.
    And, I was thinking.
    Is this what crazy is?

    - Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie

    Best book ever. Hands down.
    September 4th, 2012 at 04:15am
  • daisyfairy

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    Henry twirls me around and soon we’re dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whooshing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the trees.
    - The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    September 4th, 2012 at 02:42pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    She need me no more once upon a time there was a lady called crush who loved me with her soft heart she was my life and lived with me in my soul will she ever need my love ooh she need me no more
    September 8th, 2012 at 04:54pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    You can make a great gain from your own talent, but don 't get too perfetionistic other wise you 'll never finish sms
    September 8th, 2012 at 04:59pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    Remember to put me in your dream and is time to say good night real world , hello dream world
    September 8th, 2012 at 05:05pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    If you don't hate you love
    September 8th, 2012 at 05:07pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    Yes i omit single , you're gonna have to be amazing to change that
    September 8th, 2012 at 05:09pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    Think before you make a wish because you might get it
    September 8th, 2012 at 05:12pm
  • Lil'Biskette

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    You know the future of Earth is here when your four year old cousin thanks God for Tim Hortons.
    September 10th, 2012 at 04:54am
  • starry eyed

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    “They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”

    - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed.

    I was fine until I came to this part and then there were tears everywhere.
    July 7th, 2013 at 02:08pm
  • Sikhwetha maanda

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    When I first saw her at school in 2011 I almost blv she is mine soulmate , wow just a silly crush on me till now have that crush
    OMG ! She have no clue is all about her in mine heart
    Oh , let it be like that you don 't have to know what you really mean to me okay !!
    I hate the fact that I love you yet don 't want you to know ,
    July 27th, 2013 at 10:00pm
  • strychnine.

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    "There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you." Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

    That's my favorite book of all time, despite it's lack of literary value.
    July 29th, 2013 at 03:56am
  • the god of thunder.

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    "Everything beautiful is far away. Or maybe everything far away is beautiful." -Lost at Sea, Bryan Lee O' Malley.
    August 20th, 2013 at 02:50am
  • the god of thunder.

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    "at last no one decided
    and no one knocked
    and no one jumped up
    and no one opened
    and there stood no one
    and no one entered
    and no one said: welcome
    and no one answered: at last."
    -maggie stiefvater.
    August 26th, 2013 at 06:25am