I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (via shitiunderline)

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can’t you see? It’s just the same with you — and just as vital to nature.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.18)

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake

She did a one year residency with a theater. And much like everything she has received via the relationship with Benedict, she received because of her ex-boyfriend Conrad Shawcross. And he had been the winner of this theatre residency the year before. He is her only claim to fame. He is the person that is mentioned in several of the blinds I read the other day. Conrad is definitely involved and plays around.

Enty

Yeah, I wouldn’t call her co-conspirator Conrad an ex