“At every moment of our lives, we have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
— Paulo Coelho (via girlinlondon)
(Source: armchairoxfordscholar, via girlinlondon)
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books, seasons – all these things, which are not really things, but moments of life – take on a different quality at night-time, where the moon reflects the light of the sun, and we have time to reflect what life is to us, knowing that it passes, and that every bit of it, in its change and its difference, is the here and now of what we have.
Life is too short to be all daylight. Night is not less; it’s more.”
— Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night (via mirroir)
(Source: growing-orbits, via booklover)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
(Source: goodreads.com, via girlinlondon)
“It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is being not talked about.”
— Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
— Blaise Pascal, via (The Joy of Quiet)
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
— Leo Tolstoy (via human-voices)
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