I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The presents is enough for me. Day by day. Today!
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (via ikillwhatineed)
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Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
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Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
Markus Zusak (via likeafieldmouse)
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I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.
Charles M. Schulz (via nathanielstuart)
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Elizabeth von Arnim (via cajunmama)
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game

Reading feels like something I was born loving.
Andrea Barrett (via theparisreview)
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
George Orwell, 1984 (via larmoyante)
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page
Naomi Shihab Nye (via fuckyeahreading)
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
Jorge Luis Borges, “The Immortal” (via litverve)
Beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain
David Levithan (via callofthemountains)
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I shouldn’t be the superhero’s girlfriend, I should be the superhero.
Kristen Stewart [after being offered & turning down a part in a superhero movie] (via dailystews)
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