1250th.

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." - Lemony Snicket


Photo is "Sleep" - from Andrewek.

1249th.

"That's what they all say. Everyone says they want to know you, but they don't. They want to know the nice things, the pretty things. No one wants to know the ugly parts, the parts that keep you up at night. They say they're okay with it, but then they drift away and you never see them again." - Chelsea M. Cameron


Photo is "Secrets" - from Kira87.

1248th.

"His mind was full of cupboards, cluttered with secret pleasures." - Arundhati Roy


Photo is "Easter Island: Quarry Moai" - from Nestor2k.

1247th.

"There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay." - Kevin Brockmeier


Photo is "Learning that Life is Okay" - from xPinkTuxToTheProm.

1246th.

"I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days." - Frank O'Hara


Photo is "Best Days of Our Lives" - from Patrick Ruegheimer.

1245th.

"Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control." - Thomas Huxley


Photo is "Unlabeled" - from Uberkid64.

1244th.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald


Photo is "The Great Gatsby" - from Garie.

1243rd.

"The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again." - Anna Funder


Photo is "Sweet Dreams" - from Nhung.

1242nd.

"Oh, how one wishes sometime to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion." - Boris Pasternak


Photo is "Cabin in the Woods" - from Kayak Sailor.

1241st.

"We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them." - Francois de La Rochefoucald


Photo is "Phantoms of the Brain" - from Rickworks.