since feeling is first

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. —Jane Austen

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Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices, Sylvia Plath 

[ID: I wait and ache. I think I have been healing.]

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“I gave myself to the sea. The sea and the sun restore my strength, always.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry, c. July 1944 (via atreides)

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Enchanting Bookworm Inspired Digital Illustrations by Simini Blocker

NYC based illustrator Simini Blocker understands the enchanting world bookworms revel in. From Hogwarts to Neverland or King’s Landing, Blocker captures the spellbinding imaginative realms literature has introduced to us with vibrant colours, gorgeous brushstrokes and fitting quotes from our favourite authors. You can find her gorgeous illustrations on Society6 and Etsy.

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[wordsnquotes]

““Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.”

— Martin Seligman

[wordsnquotes]

“You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are.”

— William Chapman

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“You don’t know why you’re exhausted? You’re fighting a war inside your head every single day. If that’s not exhausting, I don’t know what is.”

— Unknown

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“How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.”

— Drake; Thank Me Now

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“I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.”

— Sylvia Plath.

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Art is a wound turned into light.

Georges Braque (via quotemadness)

[thelovejournals]

There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.

Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle (via thelovejournals)

[culturenlifestyle]

Enchanting Bookworm Inspired Digital Illustrations by Simini Blocker

NYC based illustrator Simini Blocker understands the enchanting world bookworms revel in. From Hogwarts to Neverland or King’s Landing, Blocker captures the spellbinding imaginative realms literature has introduced to us with vibrant colours, gorgeous brushstrokes and fitting quotes from our favourite authors. You can find her gorgeous illustrations on Society6 and Etsy.

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[wordsnquotes]

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.

Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (via wordsnquotes)

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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell, 1984 (via books-n-quotes)

[thelovejournals]

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Interne” (via thelovejournals)

[thequotejournals]

Don’t be morbid. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via wordsnquotes)