February 2011
66 posts
A Fine Frenzy, The Minnow and the Trout
January 2011
66 posts
“I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious…”
-Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three...”
– Lemony Snicket
“Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play,” he cried. “Even if it is only for a single act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.”
“You can dine with me tonight, Dorian, can’t you?”
He shook his head. “Tonight she is Imogen,” he answered....
“I didn’t eat for three days so I could be lovely…”
– Cassie, Skins
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
-Lemony Snicket
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
-Edvard Munch
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
-Dr. Seuss
Pyromania: an impulse to deliberately start fires to relieve tension. Fire is lovely. I like to watch candles burn, the wax dripping like a thick river. But I’m afraid of it too. Fire is savage. It’s a bit like putting a collar on a wolf and calling it a dog. But no dog would ever bite your head off. Like fire, the wolf can’t help being wild.
-diary entry
“The moral of Snow White is to never eat apples.”
-Lemony Snicket
“Child of woe is wane and delicate…sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns…a solemn child, prim in dress, and, on the whole, pretty lost…secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums…has six toes on one foot…”
-Charles Addams, describing his character known...
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
Plato, The Symposium