“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“The dreamer in her
Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dreamer in me
Fell in love with her and I knew it”
― Birthday Letters
Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dreamer in me
Fell in love with her and I knew it”
― Birthday Letters
“She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, even if they have no idea who you are, because they must possess you. That kind of beauty.”
― The Sea of Tranquility
― The Sea of Tranquility
“I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.
Only the is.”
― Lust & Wonder
Only the is.”
― Lust & Wonder
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