"Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it-her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart: she is looking at what she can remember, I believe; not what is really present."
Charlotte Bronte
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"I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind."
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
(Source: larmoyante, via baneful)
"I don’t have a lot of people to talk to. Not a lot of people are worth my time."
Julie Anne Peters, By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead (via simply-quotes)
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"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Her only consolation was to sit in her little garden and wrap her arms around the beautiful marble statute that looked like the prince. She didn’t take care of her flowers, which grew into a wilderness. They spread over the path and wound their long stems and leaves into the branches of the trees so that everything became quite dark."
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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(Source: vashti, via aurelialis)
"I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am dead. As soon as I utter a phrase my sincerity dies, becomes a lie whose coldness chills me."
Anaïs Nin
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(Source: prudentlittlegirl)
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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(Source: 365-daysofstephanie, via the-nightingale-and-the-rose)
