#flies

It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror has descended on you, keeping us apart. And yet why should this be? What have you lived through that I have not shared? Do you imagine that my mother's cries will ever cease ringing in my ears? Or that my eyes will ever cease to see her great sad eyes, lakes of lambent darkness in the pallor of it will ever cease ravaging my heart? But what matter? I am free. Beyond anguish, beyond remorse. Free. And at one with myself. No, you must not loathe yourself, Electra. Give me your hand. I shall never forsake you. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#imagination

She could barely remember what life had been like before him and didn't even want to try. All Grace knew was that she wanted to be with him, always. ↗

— Victoria Michaels

#grace-park #michael-andris #life

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ↗

— John Keats

#days #fanny-brawne #fifty-common-years #letter #love

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. ↗

— David Sedaris

#progress

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans." -idk..... ↗

— Katsura Hoshino

#canibals #cool #d-gray #humans #humor

(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. ↗

— MAD Magazine

#flies #humor #starving #stupid #death

When you get a groove going, time flies. ↗

— Donald Fagen

#get #going #groove #time #time flies

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#butterflies #closer #endure #few #few people