the way back

“The world will give you that once in awhile, brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.” —The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

[anxietyproblem]

[unclefather]

Where do they sell these vests

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, “little prayer”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— beau taplin

[shisasan]

From February 9 to 10, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[literarylines]

“You will burn and you will burn out. You will be healed and come back again. And I will wait for you.”

— The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[literarylines]

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind…”

— Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

[books-n-quotes]

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via books-n-quotes)

[the-book-diaries]

“…each found her greatest safety in silence…”

— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

— E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“That’s what friends do: they notice things. They’re there for each other. They see what parents don’t.”

— Nina LaCour, Hold Still (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me.”

— James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (via the-book-diaries)

[the-book-diaries]

“The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (via the-book-diaries)

[purplebuddhaproject]

“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”

—

Dalai Lama

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[the-book-diaries]

“Folks don’t like nobody being too proud, or too free.”

— Alice Walker, The Color Purple (via the-book-diaries)