Robert Lawson: A Blog

This is my blog. It's boring, I don't post much, and I'm sort of inept when it comes to the web or computers in general. Prepare for disappointment...

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

—Jonathan Safran Foer (via black-wolves)

Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.

—Haruki Murakami (via black-wolves)

Ultimately there’s an echo of what Lily did, quite a conscience echo, right at the start of the story, at the very end of the story. At the start of the story Lily dies to keep her son alive. At the end of the story Harry lies to be pretending to be dead on the ground and it’s a mother who saves him again because she’s trying to get to her own son. That was closing a circle. He was saved by Lily and saved by Narcissa.

(via wellitsbeenfun)