1261st.

"We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out." - Erich Maria Remarque


Photo is "Fire in her eyes" - from MeuAnjo.

1260th.

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing. There are two opposing poles of wanting nothing: When one is so full and rich and has so many inner worlds that the outer world is not necessary for you, because joy emanates from the inner core of one's being. When one is dead and rotten inside and there is nothing in the world: not all the woman, food, sun, or mind-magic of others that can reach the wormy core of one's gutted soul planet." - Sylvia Plath


Photo is "You Are the Universe" - from chasbruns.

1259th.

"Things break. I've come to terms with that in my own strange way. I realize there are things that will hurt and things that will keep us safe; that sometimes it's hard to discover the line between them, and that sometimes they are the same thing." - Kevin Wilson


Photo is "Cracks in the Ice" - from Evgeni Dinev.

1258th.

"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens - that letting go - you let you go because you can. The world will always be there - while you sleep it will be there - when you wake it will be there as well. So you can sleep and there is reason to wake." - Toni Morrison


Photo is "Full Moon" - from diezalfredo.

1257th.

"Here we are again, always saying goodbye." - Maggie Stiefvater


Photo is "Goodbye" - from Jeffrey Lai.

1256th.

"The words of our childhood became strangers to us - we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language." - Nicole Krauss


Photo is "Children's Book Illustration" - from Adriene Adams.

1255th.

"Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark. We borrow our food. What we eat becomes fertilizer that goes back into the earth and gets turned back into food. Everything is borrowed." - Deborah Ellis


Photo is "Quiet Before the Storm" - from jbanhas.