Stills from Hogar (Home) by Karla Solano
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"It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill."
– “Fragile Things” by Neil Gaiman (x)
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"I started wishing on the stars in the sky instead.
I said to the sun, tell me about the Big Bang.
The sun said, ‘It hurts to become.’"
I said to the sun, tell me about the Big Bang.
The sun said, ‘It hurts to become.’"
– Andrea Gibson, “I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power’s Out” (via larmoyante)
“Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees.
You have to believe it. Otherwise, you couldn’t possibly explain the beauty of the cherry blossoms. I was restless, lately, because I couldn’t believe in this beauty. But I have now finally understood: dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees. You have to believe it.”
– Motojirō Kajii, opening of “Under the Cherry Trees” (a popular Japanese quote, especially the first sentence) via tamjpn
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"Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via larmoyante)
"The world is balanced on a knife edge of destruction every single day. You accept that, and you can just get on with things."
– Elementary (via larmoyante)
