“Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and I’m lonely and depressed and I’m worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil’? Or do you say, ‘I’m fine’?”
— Sara Shepard, The Visibles
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
— John Keats
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
— Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting”
my blog truly reflects my life.. inconsistent.. disorganised… annoying
when people from real life stumble upon your tumblr and you’re just
nice to each other and naughty with each other, that's the vibe.
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.””
— Virginia Woolf
“I want a bond so tight that even on bad terms u still run to me 1st.”
— Unknown
“Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problems. You stay kind, committed to love and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say, don’t you doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you always do.”
— Scott Stabile