1254th.

"You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you: too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?" - Hanif Kureishi


Photo is "Float" - from vwd.

1253rd.

"For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind that you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known." - Gabrielle Zevin


Photo is "Together" - from ti-dw.

1252nd.

"There are two ways to reach me; by way of kisses or by way of imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. " - Anais Nin


Photo is "She had Flowers in her Hair" - from Borda.

1251st.

"That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be - the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person." - Joseph Mitchell


Photo is "Homesick, I guess" - from Fateastray.

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.