girl like a shadow

[juansendizon]

“Sometimes I want to scream but screaming is not in my nature, so I shut down and sleep for days and days and days until I wake up and feel completely silenced.”

— Juansen Dizon, Flashbacks

[girllikeashadow]

We read to remember. We read to forget. We read to make ourselves and remake ourselves and save ourselves. 

Maria Popova

[owlmylove]

pls drink a lot of wine and be extraordinarily well read and buy too much perfume and write a few too many love letters and spread affection and poetry wherever you go

[wnq-quotes]

wordsnquotes.com

[stay-peachy]

[insaniteas]

Finding that one scene in a book that you love to read again and again because you just can’t get over it is the best part of reading in my opinion

[thegoodvybe]

[theclassicsreader]

– what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization –

Virginia Woolf, from “The Mark on the Wall” (via theclassicsreader)

[grayskymorning]

Polly Florence

[aweepingwillow]

Virginia Woolf sent Vita Sackville-West a dummy copy of the first edition of To The Lighthouse, on publication day, 5 May 1927. It was inscribed ‘In my opinion the best novel I have ever written.’ All the pages were blank. A few nights later she kept herself awake worrying that Vita might not have seen the joke, and sent an anxious note to ‘Dearest donkey West’: ‘Did you understand that when I wrote it was my best book I merely meant because all the pages were empty?’ Immediately Vita replied: ‘But of course I realised it was a joke; what do you take me for? A real donkey?’ She followed this with an effusive letter of praise for the ‘real’ To The Lighthouse: ‘Darling, it makes me afraid of you. Afraid of your penetration and loveliness and genius.’

- Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee

[goodreadss]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle (via goodreadss)

[fruitvendor]

hearing someone you love laugh is? easily one of the best things on earth

[10mb]

[quotespile]

The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.

Jane Smiley, Charles Dickens (via quotespile)

[goodreadss]

We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via goodreadss)

[asoftwrongness]

It’s okay that you’re not who you thought you would be

[fala7ablues-blog]

wow this is one of the softest things I have read on here.

[goodreadss]

“The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.”

— Sylvia Plath (via goodreadss)