Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)
More to the point, they’ve yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can’t do.
I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.
Nina LaCour, Hold Still (via the-book-diaries)
There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (via the-book-diaries)
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (via the-book-diaries)
She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.
Alexandra Bracken, Passenger (via the-book-diaries)
Regulus: "How mad would mum be if we shagged them?"
Sirius: "Oh she'd be thrilled."
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I need someone who will actually stay by my side, no matter what mood I’m in.
(via motivated-mindset)
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)
I'm a writer, a reader, and a lover of a whole lot of things. Welcome to what brings me happiness.AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/ravenclawstearoom/profileCurrently Writing: The Sun and the Moon.
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