Little Talks, Of Monsters and Men

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“does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? i used to think it didn’t. now I think it does. and i think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Rumi (via thequotejournals)

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“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all… a day… an hour.”

stranger things ;  n a n c y  w h e e l e r

I asked you for one more miracle. I asked you to stop being dead.

Charlie Heaton for Interview Magazine

Lava in Elysium Planitia

Ulugh Beg Madrasah in Samarkand (left)

I thrust the thought away. I tried to think of what the next day might bring, of what might be the safest route west. I tried to think of anything but the stormcloud color of his eyes.