"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Saturday, March 30 ~
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Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.
— George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons part 2: After the Feast
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~ Saturday, March 23 ~
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My great-grandfather gave up on religion completely. And my grandfather told me why he did. This is true, by the by. Not true in the way fiction is truer than truth. True in both realms.
— Nathan Englander, “Everything I Know About My Family on My Mother’s Side” in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
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~ Sunday, March 17 ~
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It’s not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
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~ Sunday, February 10 ~
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Tiling at Baker Street tube station

Tiling at Baker Street tube station

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~ Monday, February 4 ~
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By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn’t want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn’t want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.
— Darin Strauss, Half a Life
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~ Tuesday, January 22 ~
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Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.
— Darin Strauss, Half a Life
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~ Friday, January 18 ~
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We were king’s men, knights and heroes… but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.
— George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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~ Wednesday, January 2 ~
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I read 54 books last year,

but basically the entire last 3 months were me trying to get through A Feast for Crows. Some high points, but I just cannot care that much about a book which is half composed of Greyjoys and contains no Tyrion or Daenerys. Splitting the characters in half was not a good move in my opinion, though we’ll see how successful that was after the next book. The big event near the end that I won’t spoil for anyone who hasn’t read it was satisfying though!

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~ Monday, November 19 ~
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geekyjessica:

lacigreen:

christophernolans:

Ryan Gosling on the MPAA’s decision to give Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating over its inclusion of an oral sex scene. (x)

Oh…  Oh….  Hello Ryan.  I - I didn’t realize you were perfect until just now. <3 <3

(Source: howtocatchamonster)


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~ Sunday, November 11 ~
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every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness… King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.
— George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords part 2: Blood and Gold
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