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Art Deco style book covers.

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Sunflowers, c. 1982. Andrew Wyeth. Watercolor and pencil on paper

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Analogues I took at Versailles last Summer

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"Meeting at the Turret Stairs" (1864, Burton)

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God I haven't posted here in a bit, anyway I recently rewatched two old favorite childhood movies "A Little Princess" 1995 and "The Secret Garden" 1993, and they were both better than I remembered, especially the aethetisism of both

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"I will have something beautiful, and I will have revenge."

-The Tale of Despereaux

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"'How,' he said, "can I possibly make the dean of studies understand that there is divinity in our midst?"

-The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

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"Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl."

-The Virgin Suicides

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"Dally is tougher than I am. Why can I take it when Dally can't? And then I knew. Johnny was the only thing Dally loved. And now Johnny was gone."

-The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton

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A note in my copy of Narnia I got from a free books stand

"To my fellow Narnian,

'Aslan,' said Lucy, 'you're bigger.'

'That is because you are older little one.' Answered he. 'Not because you are?'

'I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.'

~Prince Caspian, Chapter Ten

May you find Him bigger, Steve.

Your friend, Kevin (Oct 2011)

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I'm usually shut up in my house so whenever I'm out I have a tendency to treat it as if it were an adventure

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"Do me a favor. Do yourselves a favor. Stop talking, and look. You're not required to write a paper. You're not even required to like it. You are required to consider it."

-Mona Lisa Smile, 2003

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"All my dreams have come to nothing."

-Valerie and her Week of Wonders, 1970

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"Leaves of Grass"

by Walt Whitman

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"My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodigious birth of love it is to me.

That I must love a loathed enemy."

-Romeo and Juliet, Act | Scene V