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.

512th.

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." - Garrison Keillor




Photo is "Christmas" - from kiiw.

511th.

"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve." - Adele Comandini




Photo is "Strangers" - from m0thyyku.

510th.

"Teaching was letting children talk as if they had something important to say that the world had not heard and dealt with already." - Toni Morrison




Photo is "Teaching" - from george-le-meilleur.