1282nd.

"We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us." - The Joker from The Dark Knight


Photo is "Joker" - from Rubiitu.

1281st.

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up those defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person. no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life ... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman


Photo is "I Will Carry This" - from OmDaisy.

1280.

"In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman." - Rob Sheffield


Photo is "Headphones" - from levdir.

1279th.

"She was not ready for this. Not able to even conceive of opening her heart up to anything or anyone. It was already shattered, and if she took away the shield around it, her heart might simply wither and fall to the ground like leaves in autumn. She was not ready, but she was terrified also that she might never be." - Christopher Golden


Photo is "Protest Your Sweet Heart" - from devil-dxb.

1278th.

"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made." - Margaret Atwood


Photo is "Ruins" - from Veniamin.

1277th.

"But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Lewis Caroll


Photo is "Yesterday" - from Iza87.

1276th.

"He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams." - Virginia Woolf


Photo is "Man of the Sun" - from iNeedChemicalx.