8:00pm
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." — Alan Bennett, The History Boys: The Film (via johnjohnjohnjohnjohn)
(via accentuatethe--positive)
7:35pm
"Some people are so much accustomed to being alone in self communion that they do not at all compare themselves with others, but spin out their soliloquising life in a quiet, happy mood, conversing pleasantly, and even hilariously, with themselves. If, however, they are brought to the point of comparing themselves with others, they are inclined to a brooding under estimation of their own worth, so that they have first to be compelled by others to form once more a good and just opinion of themselves, and even from this acquired opinion they will always want to subtract and abate something. We must not, therefore, grudge certain persons their loneliness or foolishly commiserate them on that account, as is so often done." — Friedrich Nietzsche (via thagaolagamort)
(via thagaolagamort)
7:28pm
"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing." — J. K. Rowling (via ecisive)
(via immortels)
7:10pm
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." — Rainer Maria Rilke (via cavum)
(via cavum)
10:27am
"What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal." —
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (via sainttarrou
)
(via multitasker)
10:28pm
"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away." —
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via larmoyante
)
(via imaginatifs)
8:11pm
"I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?" — Margaret Atwood (via atomos)
(via 27paperboats)
8:05pm
"We’re all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It’s a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it’s true, but then so’s everything." — Charles de Lint (via aurelle)
8:03pm
"If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you." — Winnie The Pooh (via venebelle)
(via desideroso)
