The truly painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.
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Thai elephant handlers painted their beasts black and white in a protest about lack of funding for their mammals. They insist Thai elephants need of state help, while government officials shower money on a Chinese panda family at Chiang Mai zoo Picture: WENN (via Animal pictures of the week: 4 September 2009 - Telegraph)
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
- Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
"I shouldn’t be so upset because life goes on and I should go on with it."
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via filmquotes)