“Molly”, Jason Wright.
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk (via criminalwisdom)
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12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things
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- box tent : the plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes
- jamais vu : that feeling of seeing something for the first time, even though there’s nothing new about it
- paresthesia : that tingling sensation when your foot falls asleep
- grawlix : the string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (“$%@!”)
- caruncula : the small, triangular pink bump on the inside corner of each eye
- badinage : another word for playful banter
- rhumba : a group of rattlesnakes
- dringle : to waste time by being lazy
- agraffe : the wire cage that keeps the cork in a bottle of champagne
- wings : those back flaps on a bra
- rasher : a single slice of bacon
- purlicue : the web between your thumb and forefinger
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via helplesslyamazed)
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Art Nouveau - Riga, Latvia
Work by graphic designer Pilar Zeta,
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But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via nirvikalpa)
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She kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Ice Palace” (via poseidenne)
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