"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."
Joanne Harris (via vertigoverb)
(Source: daylight-dreams)
"All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable."
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: mustardhat)
"What if a persons face was so sacred to you it was permanently inscribed in your memory? What if their smell and touch were dearer to you than life itself?"
Alexandra Adornetto
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”
― Haruki Murakami
(Source: madisontrue)
"When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman."
Joss Whedon (via realfakescientist)
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (via astoldbymarjam)
(Source: creatingaquietmind)
"She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights."
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via lastlifeinuniverse)
"That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."
1Q84, Haruki Murakami (via yourdailynarcissist)
(Source: iibrahim)
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau (via realfakescientist)
"I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem."
Jaime Gil de Bieda (via malihasmuse)
(Source: light-essence)
"I am touched by wisdom that appears from a pure and peaceful mind, and the depth of love that appears from this wisdom…"
Tony Samara (via justbesplendid)
"Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking."
Nina Simone (via indiekris)
"On your way to becoming a religious person, don’t become a crappy human being."
Sheikh Omar Suleiman (via maham-a)
(Source: mercyoverwrath)
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi (via rumiandshit)
"I want to hide under your rib cage, your heart and I. Fall asleep to your breath, every night."
Suomia (via forgivethelost)
(Source: word-digest)
