living winter gaze

"Are you people satisfied with this world? I'm not." - Lockon Stratos (Neil Dylandy)

[quotemadness]

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Kiera Cass

[lifeinpoetry]

I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hated twin, but now, I don’t know you as myself. I release you with all the pain I would know at the death of my children.

You are not my blood anymore.

— Joy Harjo, from "I Give You Back," Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

[quotemadness]

“You’ll break your own heart if you fall in love with ideas and not people.”

— Bridgett Devoue

[perfectquote]

“I’m homesick all the time … I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

[quotemadness]

“You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”

— Neil Gaiman

[booksquoteslife]

“It is lonely when you’re among people, too.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

[peachcannery]

“Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

[owlmylove]

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher (via resqectable)

[quotemadness]

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”

— Haruki Murakami

[quotemadness]

“Some things go too deep to be forgotten.”

— John Galsworthy

[ardor-mohr]

“One can say anything to language. This is why it is a listener, closer to us than any silence or any god.”

— John Berger, “The Hour of Poetry” (1982)

[talesofpassingtime]

“It may sound foolish for a man in his mid-thirties to say this, but I feel as if my life is just beginning.”

— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

[talesofpassingtime]

“Sure, I have regrets,” I replied. “But even if I could go back and rectify one of my mistakes, I doubt it would change the outcome.”

— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

[kingdomsinthewild]

“This is how I will remember you; a constant in my sky. A bird tethered to the clouds. A body emitting light.”

— Lusia Solaris (via lusiasolaris)

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?… Your life belongs to you and you alone.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (via quotespile)

[quotemadness]

“Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.”

— William Chapman

[thoughtkick]

“The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”

— Mandy Hale