”I Want To Write A Novel About Silence," He Said; “the Things People Don’t Say.”

nice to each other and naughty with each other, that's the vibe.

“Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.”

— James Hillman

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

— Stephen R. Covey

When Franz Kafka said, "Perhaps it isn't love when I say you are what I love the most - you are the knife that I turn inside myself, this is love" and when Fruit Bats said, "When you love somebody and bite your tongue, all you get is a mouth full of blood"

“Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

— Neil Gaiman, Coraline

humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, art, daydreams. our souls really weren’t made for this world.

“Sometimes we need someone to simply be there, not to fix anything or do anything in particular. But just to let us feel we are supported and cared about.”

— Unknown

The intimacy of reading while someone you love sits close to you, reading their own book with your head on their lap playing with your hair, twirling and twisting your hair stands, being so comfortable with each other that it feels so natural, like you are truely home with peace and tranquility......

“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”

— Nikita Gill

“There are persons who honestly do not see the use of books in the home, either for information — have they not radio and even television? — or for decoration — is there not the wallpaper?”

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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American writer