"Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
"And it’s not “clever lonely” (like Morrissey) or “interesting lonely” (like Radiohead), it’s “lonely, lonely” like the way it feels when you’re being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder."
Chuck Klosterman
(Source: saddest-summer, via romanceandrevolution)
"I was angry with you. I didn’t know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. […] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please."
Gayle Forman, Where She Went
(Source: inmyskin)
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
Sylvia Plath
(via 3soulmates)
"If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Source: disenar, via moustachioed)
"And what you own is what you do not own,
And where you are is where you are not."
Thomas S. Eliot
"She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar."
Paulo Coelho
(Source: kari-shma, via afrikanlewa)
"Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you."
John Irving
(Source: quote-book, via afrikanlewa)
"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary."
Diary -Chuck Palahniuk
(Source: longislandiswear, via mango-watermelon-love)
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."
Simone de Beauvoir
(Source: misswallflower, via missvoguette)
"Reading’s fucking trippy. You should think about reading and be confused. Your mother is smiling and waving at you. That’s just 33 letters on a blog. But do you have the courage to wave back? Do it. That’s the courage to wonder."
- B. HOCKEY J.
(via viafrank)
