Quotidian

quotations from my current reading

[ordinaryhumanlife]

Now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[ordinaryhumanlife]

It was now the second week of March and a time of tender growth, when it slowly dawned on people that the world would not always be cold and brown.

Paulette Jiles, News of the World

[ordinaryhumanlife]

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith

[audreyno]

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

Hillary Clinton (x)

[huariqueje]

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual

Faifield Porter   , 1969      (via huariqueje)

[huariqueje]

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake    (via huariqueje)

[figtreedreaming]

4.7.17 “To read a book is to read the world.” 🌎 Oxford, U.K.

[ordinaryhumanlife]

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

[ordinaryhumanlife]

You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

[absolvam]

Cold night smell coming in the windows. New moon floating white as a rib at the edge of the sky.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via pattiocleavis)

[ordinaryhumanlife]

Loving one’s home is not about being fixed into place, but rather it is about becoming part of a space where one has expanded one’s body

Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others 

[ordinaryhumanlife]

I have considered the eyes of the world for so long that I think it is time I had a little holiday from them. If one is not to please oneself in old age, when is one to please oneself?

All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West

[ordinaryhumanlife]

I don’t hate men, I just wish they’d try harder.

Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

[ordinaryhumanlife]

I slink away and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why– not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for Heaven– and I ask what this message means.

Emily Dickinson

[ordinaryhumanlife]

the cobblestoned loneliness of a city that felt... like a place where you might come to let the water close over your head

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[ordinaryhumanlife]

Plants and a pumpkin 🌷🎃

[ordinaryhumanlife]

Beach reading pt. 2