I was born for politics. I have great hair and I love lying.
Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513 (via incorrecthistories)
To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent Seems the most guilty of them all. He’ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder In handsome words.
Medea, from Euripides Medea (via myancientworld)
If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant.
Jane Kenyon, from “Taking Down the Tree,” Collected Poems (via hecatese)
Wait For It - Hamilton
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We want our leaders to save the day, but we don’t get a say in what they trade away. We dream of a brand new start, but we dream in the dark for the most part!
Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via fleurdelecours)
Atomic Blonde (2017, dir. David Leitch)
Evil thoughts became my sole intimates — the darkest and most evil of thoughts.
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” (via greatliteraryquotations)
My blood is yearning–bitterly, darkly, and inescepably.
Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953 (via violentwavesofemotion)
ginger // the front bottoms
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We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart (via pollyandbooks)
I am a dream swallower, and I poison myself. I have a palate for rare, erratic impulses.
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)
Someone: You're so dramatic!
Me, with a rose between my lips, throwing glitter around, dressed in evening wear during the day, draping myself across a piano: I have no idea what you're talking about
i didnt shovel enough driveways as a kid so i didnt build enough character and thats why im the way that i am
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I know only three states of being: godless hubris, righteous fury, and hapless melancholia
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“throw roses into the abyss and say: here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.”
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
Haruki Murakami (via quotemadness)