We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman (via onesunnycloudyday)
I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.
Hunter S. Thompson (via misswallflower)
My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.
Augustus, The Fault in Our Stars (via rosettes)
(Source: bethanylosch)
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..
Libba Bray (via misswallflower)
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via misswallflower)
Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
1984 by George Orwell (via ireadabook)
As for my confused impressions they will never be written. There are blanks in my mind that cannot be filled up.
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (via futurelies)
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
