Languageenfleur - Ominous Or Premonitory?

E. E SCOTT

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

““I miss dreaming forwards,” Anna said. “What?” “I dream backwards now. You won’t believe how backwards you’ll dream someday.””

— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness (via quoted-books)

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”

— Joseph Mitchell

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

Albert Camus, The Fall Originally published: 1956

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater