“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”
— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)
Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “The Garden”
/ˈmo͞onˌstrək/
adjective unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love.
“You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.”
— Ed Harris
Andrée Chedid, from “Terre et Poésie,” quoted in Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (edited by Kamal Boullata).
“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”
— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)
David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks
“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”
— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions
Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929
“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”
— Syd Barrett (via quotemadness)
“She never forgot that day; it was so bright and golden and fair, so free from shadow and so lavish of blossom.”
― L. M. Montgomery, from “Anne of Green Gables.”