Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do
Breaks my heart that I have to tell you this but you don't need to be fixed, my dear I know the beauty in your world is long gone and dancing with clouds is like wishing for rain.
“You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.”
— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
Look deeply in my eyes; a twin mirrors of dusk. Beware of the melancholy in them.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Gustave Doré (1870)
Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - ’Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail - Assent - and you are sane - Demur - you’re straightway dangerous - And handled with a Chain -
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