dust & shadow

[thoughtkick]

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[thoughtkick]

“Show me the most damaged parts of your soul, and I will show you how it still shines like gold.”

— Nikita Gill

[bnmxfld]

“I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[memoriestoprocess]

You make me dream of crazy, beautiful things.

[rijnsburgtoday]

[memoriestoprocess]

Even when my mind spirals its worst, you’re an angel to me. Out of anyone in the world, I only want to be yours.

[memoriestoprocess]

You’re my future 🖤 I’ve known it from day one

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[lunamonchtuna]

— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)

[softhe4rted]

the thing is by Ellen Bass

[writingdotcoffee]

“You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”

— Erica Jong

[quotemadness]

“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy their existence.”

— Unknown

[weltenwellen]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[metamorphesque]

— I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (translated by A.Z. Foreman)

[darkagelibrary]

And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[dolcesostenuto]

book treasures | by the.vintage.library

[macrolit]

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

— Joyce Carol Oates