#rain

Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#gasoline-rainbow #kiss #beauty

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #carpe-diem #dying #holding-hands #laughter

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#disease #doctors #life #medical-training #medicine

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #libba-bray #thinking #using-your-brain #beauty

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. ↗

— Luke Davies

#comfort #drained #heroin #sadness #beauty

I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night? The out-of-tuneness of the triad is part of its beauty. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#beauty

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#concussion #simplicity #beauty

Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#engineer #mysteries #the-dead-isle #trains #beauty

...I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #rain #beauty

We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#life