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Piet Mondrian - "Windmill in the Evening" (1917)

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Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”

Kazuo Ishiguro “Never Let Me Go”

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What fascinated me was the extent to which, in the world outside of books and films, people didn’t rebel. They didn’t protest. Usually what happens is that people accept the hand that they’ve been dealt and try to make the best of it… The fascinating thing for me is the way people respond to being dealt a really bad hand. And sometimes it seems to me if that’s all you known, if that’s the world you’ve grown up in, you cannot see the boundaries from which you have to run. You cannot see what you have to rebel against, and instead you just try—sometimes heroically—to find love, friendship, something meaningful and decent within the horrific fate you’ve been given.

Kazuo Ishiguro on why the characters in 'Never Let Me Go' doesn't fight back

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finished never let me go by kazuo ishiguro and all i can think about is that one post that goes something like

the love was there. it changed nothing and saved no one, but it matters that it was there.

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Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

Kazuo Ishiguro

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“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust."

Kazuo Ishiguro "Never Let Me Go”

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– Jamie Oliveira | from "Erosion"

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the real true purpose of having a brain is to think about fictional characters

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol.III: 1939-1944

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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Virginia Woolf, The Years

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ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

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they could never make me think sejanus was an idiot for wanting change and trusting snow. they could never make me think wyatt was an idiot for giving his life for someone with zero chances of winning. they're both good people and were willing to die for it. no matter what you say i respect and love characters who are like that

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the ballad of songbirds and snakes vs sunrise on the reaping

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«We found love in hopeless place...» 🤍📖