I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Virginia Woolf – from The Voyage Out (via sheepskeleton)
Quotes
Our emissary in Venice retrieved it from a burnt-out villa on the Grand Canal. These vampires are endlessly associated with fires, by the way. It is the one weapon they can use effectively against one another. There are always fires.
David Talbot, Queen of the Damned
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren’t and it is one of the experiences of life.
Bernhard Schlink (via devilsfool)
“People
don’t do things to be evil, they do things because
they think they’re right, and they think what they’re doing is right and it
just so happens that it can be evil to others.”
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, he knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why, God? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
Stephen King, Storm of the Century (via devilsfool)
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
Ingeborg Bachmann (via devilsfool)
Marius, you turned your back on me. That came as no surprise, really. You were always the teacher, the parent, the high priest. I don’t despise you for it. But Louis! My Louis, I could never deny you anything, and you turned me away!
Lestat (via devilsfool)
I’ll get rid of you. It will be a battle between us, and I needn’t point out to you I have more wit to fare better in my little finger than you in your entire frame. Do as I say.
Louis to Lestat. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (via nodominion)
Seeeeee??? I keep telling you guys Louis is a BAMF okay, even from IWTV.
Lestat’s a brat
but a legal brat
#eloquent eloquence
Without pain there would be no suffering. Without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.
Angelina Jolie (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
So rather than trying to open my heart, I’m gonna lock it with a key. So that only the special ones, can ever get through to me
George, Special Ones (via monsqueaky)
I-want-my-IWTV 