“Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.
Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.
Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.
She's the one. She really is. I know that now.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“That was all I needed when she smiled at me, all the other stupid, ugly stuff just drifted away.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“That night was different... there was something pulling me towards him. Something dark and sexy.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“It's the bad place I always come back to in my dreams.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“I felt like I was looking into the future... and the future looked really messed up.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
Charles Burns
Born date September 27, 1955
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“I have to tell him how much i miss him when he's not here. So I snug my face against his pulse in his neck. "I love you" I wait, barely about to breathe. He tightens his arms around me. "I know, and how luck that makes me." I watch him go, wondering just what the fuck that meant to me.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Glass
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― Flann O'Brien, quote from At Swim-Two-Birds
“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from The Van Alen Legacy
“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“در فاصله ی میان دو جنگ، یوهان خردسال ... سرگرم بازیهای چهار و نیم سالگی خود بود. بازیهایی که هیچ آدم بالغی به معنا و مفهوم آن پی نمیبرد و از شیرینی آن خبر نداشت. ... این بازیها بیش از هر چیز به تخیل بی آلایش، پرشور، نیرومند، دست نخورده و بی حد و مرز سنّ و سال بی دغدغهای نیازمند است که در آن زندگی هنوز قادر نیست به ما دست درازی کند، سنّ و سالی که در آن هنوز نه گناهی به گردن داریم و نه وظیفه ای، سنّ و سالی که در آن اجئزه داریم ببینیم، بشنویم، بخندیم، شگفت زده شویم و رویا ببافیم، بی آن که دنیا هنوز از ما توقعی داشته باشد، سنّ و سالی که در آن کسانی که میخواهیم دوستشان بداریم، هنوز با بی صبری خود، آزارمان نمیدهند و در پی آن نیستند که با دیدن نخستین نشانهها و دلایل، اطمینان بیابند که در آینده به خوبی از عهده ی توقعات زندگی بر خواهیم آمد. اما طولی نخواهد کشید که زندگی با قدرت بی چون و چرای خود بر سرمان بتازد، آلوده مان کند، به راه مان بیاورد، دراز و کوتاه مان کند، تباه مان کند.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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