“Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” -Neil Gaiman, Coraline
"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then."
— Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (via emotional-algebra)
"This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next - and I didn’t want to forget a single one."
— Banana Yoshimoto (via vvolare)
"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age."
— Anne Bradstreet, the first American female poet and the first American in history to have a book of poetry published, offers her son Simon advice on life in 1664. (via explore-blog)(Source: , via destinidearest)
"Too often, the only escape is sleep."
— Charles Bukowski (via mirroir)(Source: henrycharlesbukowski, via toujourscrucio)
"If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company"
— Jean-Paul Sartre (via man-and-camera)(Source: man-and-camera, via tibor-1)
