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Lo fasciò alla meno peggio, gli diede un vecchio pigiama e lo mise a letto, poi chiuse gli scuri e s’infilò a letto anche lei e fece ripartire il video. “Adesso ci vediamo la fine del film, poi ti fai un pisolino e più tardi si pappa. Ti piacciono i tortellini con la panna?” “Sì” disse Pietro, sperando che il paradiso fosse proprio così. Niente di diverso. Un letto caldo. Un video. La gamba della ragazza più bella del mondo da sfiorare. E i tortellini con la panna. Si accoccolò sotto il piumino e dopo nemmeno cinque minuti dormiva.

Gloria e Pietro, 12 anni
“Ti prendo e ti porto via” - Niccolò Ammaniti

Not long ago, in a charming dream,

I saw myself — a king with crown’s treasure;

I was in love with you, it seemed,

And heart was beating with a pleasure.

I sang my passion’s song by your enchanting knees.

Why, dreams, you didn’t prolong my happiness forever?

But gods deprived me not of whole their favor:

I only lost the kingdom of my dreams.

- The Dream, Alexander Pushkin

August 21, 1853

Have you really not noticed, then, that here of all places, in this private, personal solitude that surrounds me, I have turned to you? All the memories of my youth speak to me as I walk, just as the sea shells crunch under my feet on the beach. The crash of every wave awakens far-distant reverberations within me.

I hear the rumble of bygone days, and in my mind the whole endless series of old passions surges forward like the billows. I remember my spasms, my sorrows, gusts of desire that whistled like wind in the rigging, and vast vague longings that swirled in the dark like a flock of wild gulls in a storm cloud.

On whom should I lean, if not on you? My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveler might sink onto a soft and grassy bank.

- Gustave Flaubert to his wife Louise Colet

..because I’m ready to start fresh.

It’s gonna be hard, it’s gonna need time to get used to. It’s gonna be painful, because of the distance, and of the subtle fear of relying on myself for the first time. But it’s gonna be oh, so awesome. Because of us, mostly.

Everything’s gonna be alright.

“When we say things like ‘people don’t change’, it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it’s always changing. Morphing, merging, growing, dying. It’s the way people try not to change that’s unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that’s up to us. It can feel like death, or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment, we can have another chance at life, like at any moment, we can be born all over again.”

Grey’s Anatomy, 7x01 “With you I’m born again”

as aspect of the wizarding world of harry potter that bugs me way more than it should

poppygallico:

isabelthespy:

is that we get all this stuff about how poor the weasleys are, right, but what the fuck does poor mean in a magical context??? you’re telling me 16-year-old wizards can be expected to turn a mouse into a teapot, but they can’t wave a wand and make some secondhand robes - or secondhand cauldrons, or secondhand books for that matter - look brand spanking new? the fuck? the burrow looks like it’s barely held together with magic, but, uh, it’s held together WITH FUCKING MAGIC, can’t they make that magic do a better job? can’t the magic that allows them to fucking APPARATE and make good luck potions and break open locks (which adds to another issue, namely, why the fuck does anyone even bother to lock anything when the unlocking spell is so simple quite literally an eleven-year-old child can do it) and MIND CONTROL PEOPLE and make them sprout slugs out of their foreheads - it can do all that and more and it can’t put together a fucking house or change ron’s dress robes into a nice emerald green to offset his hair? really? REALLY?

DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED on how there does, in fact, exist a truth potion in the wizarding world, AND YET there is made no mention of its EVER HAVING BEEN USED back during the war when they KNEW THERE WAS A MOTHERFUCKING SPY AFOOT, like, a whole lot of trouble could have been saved if james & sirius had invited remus over for tea, secretly dosed it with veritaserum, and then been like, “yo, so are you the spy?” like ALL THAT CATASTROPHE COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, GODDAMN, if only jkr had thought to invent a truth potion before the fourth book. ALAS.

THIS BUGS ME TOO. If Hermione can MEND HARRY’S BROKEN GLASSES when she is like thirteen surely Molly doesn’t need to DARN ROBES BY HAND.

I always had those issues in mind but constantly avoided asking myself all those things..it would drive me crazy O_O and I know that’s probably among the questions J.K. Rowling answered but I don’t know how it could seem reasonable..

(via poppygallico)