984th.

"Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the shadows, waiting for something to happen. Waiting for someone else to make it happen. Something new or different or crazy and amazing. I've been there for so long, letting everyone else figure it out for me, floating along without much direction or conscious thought. Reacting." - Sarah Ockler


Photo is "Floating" - from shoobz.

983rd.

"It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionary adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes." - Jon Krakauer


Photo is "Keep True to the Dreams of Your Youth" - from AxnAkshan.

982nd.

"What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary." - Lea DeLaria


Photo is "He Had It Coming" - from BadMojo.

981st.

"The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love." - Jeanette Winterson


Photo is "Lost Worlds" - from pierofix.

980th.

"How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person?" - Sylvia Plath


Photo is "Identity Stamp" - from danieleckler.

979th.

"And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken." - Tiffanie Debartolo




Photo is "People Die, Love Doesn't" - from PhotographyFilmMusic.

978th.

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." _ Ernest Hemingway




Photo is "Ernest Miller Hemingway" - from flaneur.

977th.

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself." - Andrew Murphy




Photo is "Picc" - from JennFlemmer.

976th.

"Now there is no music other than that of words, and these, especially those in books, are discreet, and even if curiosity should bring someone from the building to listen at the door, they would hear only a solitary murmur, that long thread of sound that can last into infinity, because the books of this world, all together, are, as they say the universe is, infinite." - Jose Saramago




Photo is "Carved Books" - from Brian Dettmer.

975th.

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." - Robert Frost




Photo is "Mother and Son" - from codex.