"Doctor Nicholas, in Swahili we say, la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know."
-The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

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"What terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way that ( Read more... )

Growing up, my parents always said, "You will leave this world the same way you came into it: with nothing." It made me realize that the only things we do in this world that count are those things that make the world a better place for those will come behind us.

-Tyrone B. Hayes
Biologisy,herpetologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer

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since i'm like dying.
send me some music that is like acoustic/or soft that will help me sleep/feel better. 
i want to have a playlist for being 'sick as a dog'

I'm serious about writing. I want to write but I also need to write. I want for someone to be able to pick up a book of mine in a store, read it, and fall in love with words I have written; the samet thing I have done with many authors. This is my dream and reality.

i know what i want out of life. i know where i want to take my life. i know what i want to do with my life. i know where i belong in this world. but it seems that because i do know, life keeps throwing everything it's got to slow me down. it's extremely frustrating. not only that, but i see people around get handed things in their lives(not objects ( Read more... )

new eljay.
i'm gonna start posting over there more.
i needed a new one for a new school year.

i know,it sounds dirtyyyy.
but it goes with my sn.

You have a dangerousface and
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