1054th.

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality." - Shirley Jackson


Photo is "Reality Bites" - from graphix86.

1053rd.

"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here ... to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil." - Charles Dickens


Photo is "Stay With Me" - from Antonio Rodrigues Jr.

1052nd.

"Vanity is a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet." - Margaret Atwood


Photo is "Vanity" - from froufroufashionista.

1051st.

"Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable." - A.S. Byatt


Photo is "Closure" - from pointlessxnostalgic.

1050th.

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." - Frank Herbert


Photo is "Mystery" - from Street and Stage.

1049th.

"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate." - Margaret Mitchell


Photo is "Vanity Fair 1953" - from Mark Shaw.

1048th.

"It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." - Khaled Hosseini


Photo is "Ritual Prayer Bracelet" - from Renegade Ro.

1047th.

"She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like to not be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated." - A.S. Byatt


Photo is "Contradiction" - from Guillaume David.

1046th.

"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion." - Audrey Niffenegger


Photo is "Sleep Sleep Sleep" - from Mitzi Capata.

1045th.

"I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to." - Elizabeth Berg


Photo is "Office Confession" - from Arik Levy.