#324: Prison
‘That’s all the freedom we can hope for – the freedom to choose our prison.’ – L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
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#322: Père Lachaise cemetery
‘The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
#321: Off season
‘Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.’ – Victor Hugo
#317: A dog’s opinion
‘If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.’ – Woodrow Wilson
#316: Armistice Day
‘They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.’ – Robert Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen
#315: Rose
‘But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.’ – Anne Brontë
#312: Trabant
Why do some Trabants come with a heated rear window? So your hands stay warm when pushing it!
#305: Culinary pleasures
‘He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it.’ – Genna Rulon, Only for You
#304: Death Mask
‘We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.’ – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
#303: Halloween
‘Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.’ – William Shakespeare