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veen  ·  3621 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10th Occasional Give Us a Quote from Your Recent Reading

    Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

― Steven Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

    Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.

My first venture into Russian literature. Better than I expected so far.





galen  ·  3621 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man, that Peck quote hits home. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a dumb teenager. That's probably it.

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3613 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a very dumb and emotional teenager I feel like I want to weigh in. I think that yes, teenagers are overly dramatic and whiny, and both stupid and short sighted. But when it comes to monumental changes and such, especially when it comes to love and emotions a lot of things change in your teenage years. And thus having a quote about love changing you hit home is natural.

But then again I'm 16 so I'm submerged in all those wonderful dramatic years.

lil  ·  3621 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is true, what Steven Peck says. A moment of existence - a brief love can structure our consciousness ever after. It's an interesting and sometimes delicious restructuring.

Author, title, please of the second quotation.

veen  ·  3621 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh! I thought I did write it down. Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground.