Wordy

a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a lonely fellow, always hopeful for romance and adventure

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[quotemadness]

“I’ll be here just waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[quotemadness]

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

— John A. Shedd

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“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easy; we do not need to learn it.”

— Rainer  Maria Rilke

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“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”

— Maya Angelou

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“You never forget. It but be somewhere inside of you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.”

— Neil Gaiman

[quotemadness]

“So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[thebookquotes]

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

[quotemadness]

“If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?”

— Naomi Shihab Nye (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”

— Sherman Alexie (via quotemadness)

[thebookquotes]

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[quotemadness]

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Patrick Rothfuss (via quotemadness)

[thesyllabusforclass]

[quotemadness]

It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Patrick Rothfuss (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

Let go, or be dragged.

Zen proverb (via quotemadness)

[destroyed-and-abandoned]

Abandoned tree house mansion in Florida by Drew Perlmutter

[iloveu]

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