#book quotes

[shisasan]

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[kmn7]

[its0you]

[philosophors]

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

[oldshrewsburyian]

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete. Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Trust, Hernan Diaz

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

[icarusangel]

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[belamercado]

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

-Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June [originally published 1986]

[kmn7]

[bookaddict24-7]

“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”

―The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

[philosophors]

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

— Erich Fromm

[sanelyinsanemiss]

[its0you]

[simsim54]

computer: please enter a password. henry: *types in alex* computer: your password is too short• alex, appearing out of nowhere: how fucking DARE YOU-

[inkwell-chronicles]

"Death is peaceful. Easy. Life is hard." -Bella (Twilight)