“We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
—
Lewis Carroll,
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (via coral)
“I want to write a novel about Silence,“ he said; “the things people don’t say.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
—
Daphne du Maurier
“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”
— Jeffrey McDaniel
“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
(via books-n-quotes)