Cityofstars

Eat, pray, love.

[city0fstars]

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[city0fstars]

I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[city0fstars]

“Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?”

— Daughter by Janice Lee

[city0fstars]

You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?

— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch.

[city0fstars]

You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[city0fstars]

Despite what you’ve read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you. Stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare, for an end to your sadness in Keats.

He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived. Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world.

Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.

Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor.

– Emily Palermo

[sweetestsecrets]

“I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.”

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via naturaekos)

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growing up I was always afraid of being Found Out. not sure what I was hiding. just my whole self I guess

[city0fstars]

"I want so much that is not here and I don't know where to go"

– Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse

[meladoodle]

my therapist once told me that i have this obsession with seeking revenge… we’ll see about that

[city0fstars]

"What happens when people open their hearts?"

"They get better."

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[city0fstars]

Some days are for falling in love with people, some days for cities, and some for your time in solitude.

— Akif Kichloo

[city0fstars]

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam ( 1926 )

[city0fstars]

Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

[city0fstars]

Dear Milena,

I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[brotherberdly]

Online classes that make you wanna go home while you’re sitting at home

[podencos]

So sweet and funny how people become close enough to each other that they basically create their own language