"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better."
- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Friday night Coco.
"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow."
- T.S. Eliot (via ontheedgeofdarkness)
(Source: wonderfulambiguity, via savoirr)
Music is what happens
When Heaven and Earth meet
And say hello
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are ‘It might have been.’"
- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
"A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key."
- Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are."
- Quentin Crisp
The darkness ebbs and flows
Sometimes it’s punctured
Sometimes it shows
Always it lurks
But it has to be known
That it is not just the black:
The great big foe
It is also the white
And sometimes the night
Colours, blue and green
Shades that are rarely seen
Aside from through those
With whom the darkness chooses to be
It attacks, it bites
It will never be free
Soaring, slapdash
Across the past-ridden sea
Glory it does not find
In the world it leaves behind
For it is only on its own
That it can ever find its home
It is not the ideal escort
As it can often take its toll
But it also sees beauty
Through the eyes of its core
And its vision for more
Will always get sold
Forever it will play
But its name can be Ally
If that is what it’s for
It exerts its force;
Sometimes for wonder,
Sometimes for worse;
But always for course
"The edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
- Hunter S. Thompson
All you need is love. And maybe a few words.
"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Amazing.
"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
