All the world's a stage

And all the men and women merely players.

[words-win-wars]

One who has too much greed throws away his life.

Seirei no Moribito, season 2

[words-win-wars]

A thing is hardly real if no one's written about it. It's the writing that makes a thing proper and solid and true in the first place.

Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All The Way Home

[words-win-wars]

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Margaret Atwood - The Year Of The Flood

[words-win-wars]

There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

Helen MacDonald - H Is For Hawk

[words-win-wars]

Necessary things for human life: fire, food, shelter (a home). Necessary things for plant life: earth, water, air (light). Necessary things for human growth: myth, legend, stories (history).

Katherine Swift -The Morville Hours

[words-win-wars]

Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain

[words-win-wars]

Men fight other men, but women spend their whole lives fighting themselves.

Bi Feiyu - Moon Opera

[words-win-wars]

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin, he thought.

Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man And The Sea

[words-win-wars]

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

[words-win-wars]

I get it. Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

Lisa Schroeder - The Day Before

[words-win-wars]

Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime

[words-win-wars]

'I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.'

Cameron Dokey - The Storyteller's Daughter

[words-win-wars]

Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories

Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase

[words-win-wars]

It's not dying that you need be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

The Green Hornet (2011)

[words-win-wars]

A rare find, between love and tenderness. She had no other address. She was named after a flower and lived among words. Adjectives pulled by their hair, verbs that grew like weeds, some entering by force. She entered softly, from my skin to my heart. In love stories there isn’t always just love. Sometimes there isn’t a single “I love you”. Yet, we do love. A rare find. I met her by chance in the park. She did not take much space, the size of a pigeon with its feathers. Wrapped in words, in names, like mine. She gave me a book, and another pages that exploded in front of my eyes. Do not go right now, it’s not the time, wait. It is not the time, little flower. Give me some more of yourself. Give me some more of your life. Wait. In love stories, there isn’t just love. Sometimes there is not a single “I love you”. Yet, we do love each other.

La Tête En Friche

[words-win-wars]

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Haruki Murakami

[itseasyjusttolookaway]

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (via itseasyjusttolookaway)