"Ser compreendid(a) é prostituir-me"

" I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own , I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." J.A.

[ziggyminx]

[unaliveish]

raoul pascal

[blue---rain]

[visitheworld]

Pico do Arieiro, Madeira Island / Portugal (by Stefano Valeri).

[moonandtrees]

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“Even when you think you can’t bear it, you can bear it.”

— Lauren Groff, Arcadia

[eskidihayaller]

[ryongaffneyphotography]

St Pancras Railway Station, London, United Kingdom

https://www.facebook.com/ryon.gaffney.photo

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) "Resignation" (1890) Oil on canvas

[hatin]

via weheartit

[quotespile]

“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

— Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

[wanderlust-annais]

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“She had felt that way during her own childhood; she’d felt like a watchful, wary adult housed in a little girl’s body. And yet nowadays, paradoxically, it often seemed to her that from behind her adult face a child about eleven years old was still gazing out at the world.”

— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance

[bluesonplanetmars]

[quotespile]

“When I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone… you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.”

— Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

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“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”

— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star