All Fungi are edible.

Some fungi are only edible once.

-Terry Pratchett

 

Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose,

it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it

sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall,

making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had

still appeared to be a living beauty. 

- Vita Sackville-West

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

- Christian Louboutin

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”

― Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying

 

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Shekhar Kapur

 

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl