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Maggie Stiefvater
“Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.”
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
tags: 28, dating

Paulo Coelho
“They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.”
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
tags: 28, athena

“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.”
Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Robin Jarvis
“Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel.

Eric Leed”
Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

Elif Shafak
“The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.”
Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
tags: 28

Seth Dickinson
“When she'd awakened from her coma after Sieroch, she'd seen him drawing a beautiful Stakhi man, nude, brooding. He drew men differently than the classicists. He put more thought in their faces.”
Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant
tags: 28

“It鈥檚 just a game,鈥� we say, trying to convince ourselves of a truth we do not believe.”
Brandon Jack

“With the note pressed inside my nostril I start counting down because I know that this night ends like all others have of late: with me on my mattress on my bedroom floor, a rickety pedestal fan looming over me as I stare at the ceiling, grinding my teeth, at war with the thoughts that fight to be the loudest.”
Brandon Jack