“ Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait. ”
Haruki Murakami/ The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (via vous-trouvez)
“ The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. ”
“ His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. ”
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“ The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it. ”
“ She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. ”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (via thelostdeer)
“ We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. ”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via thedeerandtheoak)
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“ Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. ”
Richard P. Feynman
“ You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go. ”
Daniell Koepke (via enoqi)
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“ Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ”
“ I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them. ”
Uma Thurman (via htaed)
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“ Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them. ”
Sue Grafton, M Is for Malice
“ That night I couldn’t stop thinking about time. Was every second of our lives controlled by fate? Or is life just a series of random occurrences? If I wasn’t perpetually ten minutes late…would my life be totally different? Was timing everything? ”
Carrie Bradshaw (via marybandthecity)
