Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.
Kiersten White - Supernaturally
(via thatquote)
I would be lying if I said there were not times that I am an earthquake contained inside this skin.
Tyler Knott Gregson (via thatquote)
It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.
Nora Roberts - River’s End (via thatquote)
And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again.
The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape: the air never smelt the same, food never tasted the same. Every word I knew changed its meaning, everything that once was stable and firm became as insubstantial as a puff of wind, and every puff of wind became a solid thing that I could feel and touch.
Moab Is My Washpot - Stephen Fry (via thatquote)
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Charles Bukowski - Love is a Dog from Hell (via thatquote)
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri (via thatquote)
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love (via thatquote)
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Maya Angelou (via thatquote)
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
Alan Bennett - The History Boys: The Film
(via thatquote)
I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.
Neil Gaiman. (via i-am-the-oracular-spectacular)
(Source: thatquote)
