Monday, September 19, 2011

42.

"The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
           -Waiting for Godot (Pozzo)

"And where are we really – there or here?"
          -Watership Down (Fiver)

"'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed."
          -The Great Gatsby (Daisy)

"Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you –just a tad – off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how tightly you grip the wheel, no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much –too tiring– and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy…or whatever…to happen."
          -Th1rteen R3asons Why

"Sanity is not statistical."
          -1984

"Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope."
         -I Am Legend

"Few people realize the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material world swims."
         -The War of the Worlds

"He picked up the jug and frowned into it. 'Almost empty. In a bit I'll go buy more, but first we'll drink this up. That way, if the shop is closed or I break my neck on the landlord's unsafe stairs, at least we'll have enjoyed the final cup. That's the elven way, Jill, and is it truly heartless, to enjoy today when no man knows what evil the morrow will bring?'"
          -The Dragon Revenant (Salamander)

"There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the Earth."
          -The Illiad

"But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
          -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"We're all mad here!"
          -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Cheshire Cat)

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