Vladimir Nabokov, Soft Sound.

small things to add to a hand written letter:

a teabag of your favourite tea

heart shaped note with cute drawings

stickers on the outside of the letter, and inside

handmade paper doll

small print or postcard

a sketch or a little painting or a poem

glitter or sequins or pearls or buttons

small candies or bubblegum

cut out magazine pictures or articles

folded paper, like origami

textile like small ribbons or clothing patches

coins or flat things found in a souvenir shop

pressed flower or leaf

There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course you heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.

Hugh Laurie (via thiscoffeedrenchedlife)

You are healing.

You are growing.

You are evolving.

This is a quiet magic.

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via wordsnquotes)

No one warns you about the amount of mourning in growth.

Té V. Smith, Releasing & Recieving (via wnq-anonymous)

I am not a bit tamed…I too am untranslatable…

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass (via wordsnquotes)

In soundless dreams // Part 6