a phrase book

a collection of quotes about love, life, and creation.

[lifeinpoetry]

When I hold you in this night-soaked bed it is courage for the day I seek. Courage that when the light comes I will turn towards it. It couldn’t be simpler. It couldn’t be harder. In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go.

Jeanette Winterson, from “Disappearance I,” The World and Other Places (via blushing2)

[quotes-shape-us]

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Andrea Gibson

[poemsbydes]

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

Cheryl Strayed

[goodquoteco]

A lover doesn’t discourage your growth. a lover says, ⠀ ⠀ ‘I see who you are today, I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow’

Donte Collins (via moaka)

[wordsnquotes]

You make me want to live… Not survive; not exist. Live.

Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows (via wordsnquotes)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I feel a mysterious, soft happiness. I am in the dream again. Intact, as I was at the beginning of dreaming. It is the dreaming which creates the innocence.

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947 (via mondouxchaton)

[wnq-writers]

The oldest song in the world was the first time it rained.

ioanagavril (via wnq-writers)

[maza-dohta]

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

Colorless, Haruki Murakami.

[wordsnquotes]

Stars, too, are time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take for us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook

[thelovejournals]

Most of us will do anything to try and prove that we are enough.

Andrea Gibson

[wordsnquotes]

Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Vincent van Gogh

[fyp-science]

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Filed Under: Science Quotes | @fyp-science

(via wordsnquotes)

[soracities]

Ibn Arabi, as quoted in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers

[thequotejournals]

I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.

Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow (via thequotejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

Ralph Marston

[aseaofquotes]

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight