Regulus: "How mad would mum be if we shagged them?"
Sirius: "Oh she'd be thrilled."
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)
Someone who is very strong has to be very nice also.
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (via the-book-diaries)
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were in woven with her deepest life.
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (via the-book-diaries)
SO1 E17
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)
the losers club @ the party about mike wheeler vs. richie tozier
“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.” - Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)
via @quotemadness
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (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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