#top

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. ↗

— Floriano Martins

#life #utopia #world #life

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#life

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky? ↗

— Damon Knight

#onomatopoeia #prose-poetry #urban-life #life

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#finish #four #next #season #still

I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dystopia-fiction #paintings #teen-fiction #teen

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#love

The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #love

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#begin #easy #hard #like #love is

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. ↗

— Tim Burton

#bonham-carter #depp #helena #johnny #stop

Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss? ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #love