“I Shall Live On Dreams Because Reality Is Too Cruel To Me. I Think I Shall Be The Kind Of Person Nobody

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot

“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.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”