522nd.

"Women will do anything to avoid being alone." - All About My Mother




Photo is "Alone" - from day-light.

521st.

"Maybe it makes sense now. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a why. Maybe somewhere there's that thing that lets you tie it all up with a neat bow and bury it in the backyard. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen." - The United States of Leland




Photo is "Bury your memory today" - from marrrakesh.

520th.

"A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, not really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can." - Harold and Maude




Photo is "Play" - from graphicstreetracer.

519th.

"Everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out." - Everything Is Illuminated




Photo is "Illuminated" - from eatfun.

518th.

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." - Hal Borland




Photo is "New Year's Eve" - from ritterrunkel.

517th.

"...And she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being." - Anais Nin




Photo is "Erotica..." - from sonic-orgasm.

516th.

"I do not think, if one is a writer, that one escapes it by trying to become something else. One does not become something else: one becomes nothing. And what is crucial here is that the writer, however unwillingly, always, somewhere, knows this. There is no structure he can build strong enough to keep out this self-knowledge." - James Baldwin




Photo is "Writer" - from siudajstej.

515th.

"I like not to be where I am expected to be - for it allows me to be where I please and to be left in peace there." - Andre Gide




Photo is "Unexpected" - from r3novatio.

514th.

"Things have a life of their own... it's simply a matter of waking up their souls." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez




Photo is "Soul Wake Up" - from asiy.

513th.

"It is a mystery how the heart gets free. And perhaps there is a kind of quiet courage to waiting until it does." - Julia Alvarez




Photo is "Set Me Free" - from iimadhoshiii.