I Don’t Understand It Any More Than You Do, But One Thing I’ve Learned Is That You Don’t Have To

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious… Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (via the-book-diaries)

Rose: I’m kind of crushing on someone, but I’m worried about telling you who it is, because you’re not going to like it Albus: Just rip the bandage off. Rose: It’s Scorpius. Albus: Put the bandage back on.

Chapters 2 & 3 are up!!!! I love writing these feisty little first years and their stubborn refusal to all be friends. 

I turned out liking you a lot more than I originally planned.

(via love-diaries)

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify that fact.

Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl (via the-book-diaries)

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via the-book-diaries)

Chapter 4 of The Sun and the Moon is LIVE!

The drama is beginning to unfold and I am living for it. Come check it out and leave me your thoughts!

Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent–mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way (via the-book-diaries)

“Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you and misses you.”

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More to the point, they’ve yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can’t do.