#pa

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#conflict #despair #harshness #hell #industrialization

It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#lonely #space #lonely

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#work #prison

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#human #lonely #need #lonely

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#pain #scar #lonely

Hell, if someome wrote a book about you, well, it'd sell a million copies the day it was released. And if someone else was clever enough to write a parody - you know, to privide som comic relief during these extremely difficult economic times - that would probably be an even bigger seller, or at least it shoud be. So, just come clean with me, Ed. Your secret's safe with me, and whoever reads my internet blog. You...are...a...vampire! ↗

— Stephen Jenner

#parody #stella-crow #twilight #twilite #internet

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding... ↗

— William Gibson

#cyberspace #internet #internet

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#actions #acts #creation #dream #dreams

She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#becca-fitzpatrick #fly #hush #nora-grey #patch

Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson...bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, “I am nature. ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

#painting #dreams