The Blue Room
"And the rest is rust and stardust." - Vladimir Nabokov
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

— Margaret Atwood

Posted on Apr 28th (8:58am), 1 month ago
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted on Apr 28th (8:46am), 1 month ago
You’re a poet. Welcome to hell.

— James Wright to his son Franz, after his son wrote his first poem and sent it to him. 

Posted on Apr 28th (8:46am), 1 month ago
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Posted on Apr 21st (10:12pm), 1 month ago
I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and no matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.

— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters 

Posted on Apr 21st (10:20am), 1 month ago
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

— Mark Twain

Posted on Apr 14th (6:36pm), 1 month ago
The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

— John Muir

Posted on Apr 7th (11:31am), 1 month ago
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Posted on Apr 6th (11:42am), 1 month ago
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