““If You Don’t Go After What You Want, You’ll Never Have It. If You Don’t Ask, The Answer Is

Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “The Garden”

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh 

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms

Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”

From @sacredmoonadornments 

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“…It’s as if my heart is surrounded by a hundred petals.”

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (via wordsnquotes)