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Lover of the English language. Teacher. Traveller. Bookworm. German.
"He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost."
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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26

It’s my birthday today. I’m turning 26. I’m now undeniably on my way to 30.

 

Does that make me too old to have a personal tumblr that features Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Star Trek etc.?

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#birthday  #26  #on my way to 30  #too old for tumblr  #I hope not 
"The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented."
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream."
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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#william shakespeare  #a midsummer night's dream  #quote  #lit  #literary quote 
A Love of Mythical Proportions

Your love is of mythical proportions. It is the kind of love that will become the subject of songs and poems and epic stories, because it is a love that is pure and brave and so full of promise. Your love will be a guiding light to many and an inspiration to a few. Yet, it will never make you happy.

There is a disparity in your love and in the way it will be remembered. You shall never find happiness yourself, in this lifetime and in this world, but you shall bring light into the lives of the people because they shall learn of the love you cannot live. You shall forever feel pain in love. It will leave you crippled and disfigured by longing and emotion and lost opportunities. You shall both despair over the love you share and cannot ever enjoy.

But it will never look this way to the people who watch you every day, to those around you who look to you for guidance, to those who know of you from the tales and the stories that give them hope. The people will find hope in your despair, peace in your struggle, and happiness in your fear. Your love, unmentioned and unconsummated, will give them strength.

And while they watch and learn from the love you cannot feel, you shall become their saviours. You shall be leaders and warriors and wise caretakers of the realm the people inhabit. You shall rule by the grace of God and the support of the people, but you shall have to face your demons alone, each on their own. You shall always live a life that is not your own, that does not belong to you, and that cannot be claimed by anyone but you. You shall be as successful in leadership as you shall be a failure in love. Duty will call to you every day and demand your love as payment.

You shall live in pain to give others health and happiness; you shall live without emotion to let others be overwhelmed by it and bask in the glory of its complexity; and you shall be unhappy to give hope and happiness to your people.

You will forever live in despair, and no one will be able to deliver you from the fate you chose when you first fell in love.

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#prose  #creative writing  #a love of mythical proportions  #fantasy  #spilled ink  #epic love  #original  #thoughts  #pain  #no happiness 
"Whatever we tell ourselves, things matter to us more than people. Not the scattering of communities or the torments of the martyrs or the putting of an end to prayer […]"
Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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though my soul may set in darkness,
     it will rise in perfect light.

i have loved the stars too fondly
     to be fearful of the night.

“the old astronomer” - sarah williams

(Source: neutroncream, via fairestcharming)

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#star trek  #into darkness  #chris pine  #captain kirk  #handsome man  #great story  #great movie  #had a blast  #benedict cumberbatch's voice is beyond comparison  #science fiction rocks