violentwavesofemotion:

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin written c. August 1932

— Austin Kleon
(via wordsnquotes) —

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

— b.w. (via wnq-writers) —

Have you ever looked at the stars, seen a plane and just wanted to go where it did?

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.  (via gaugua) —

There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.

— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
(via antigonick) —

That was the feeling that possessed her now—the feeling of being something rootless and ephemeral, mere spin-drift of the whirling surface of existence.

“You see,” said Carlyle softly, “this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding—it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate

— melaaas —

I’m forgetting everything I’ve known, to become everything I’ve always wanted to be.

— conversationals
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This music doesn’t feel the way it use to. I remember how it use to make everything better. but now it doesn’t.

please help me get better

— Jonathan Safran Foe
(via naturaekos) —

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.