“Is it better to speak or to die?”
― The Heptameron
― The Heptameron
“He'll miss those trains, if nothing else.
But then again, he only loved them because they were going places.”
― Running on Air
But then again, he only loved them because they were going places.”
― Running on Air
“and I ask him again
the name for the color of water
wanting to be able to say it
as though I had known it all my life
without giving it a thought”
― The Rain in the Trees
the name for the color of water
wanting to be able to say it
as though I had known it all my life
without giving it a thought”
― The Rain in the Trees
“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― The Love Hypothesis
― The Love Hypothesis
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
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