Words

Just some quotes I like. If you have requests for a certain subject or author let me know!

[thoughtkick]

“The ‘what ifs’ and ‘should haves’ will eat your brain.”

— John O Callaghan

[without-ado]

isn't it beautiful? (x)

[poetryforall]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer's Diary," originally pub. in January 1953

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— nothingbutloveforyou

[quotemadness]

“Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars.”

— Nico Lang

[macrolit]

“It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?”

— Willa Cather (b. 7 December 1873)

[macrolit]

“She was the books she read in the library.”

— A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith, b. 15 December 1896

[macrolit]

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”

— Joyce Carol Oates (b. 16 June 1938)

[somerabbitholes]

Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over.

Neil Gaiman

[joygucci-deactivated20160123]

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.

[zaybntdaw-blog]

100%

[wetpsy-deactivated20150407]

200%

[decodethefallenmoon]

Someone who’s black or supports black people and their human rights. it literally says that in the description. “You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.” 

[fall-out-trans-child]

Why the fuck does this not have more notes wtf.

[the-shipping-machine]

I support you.

[straykidshizzle-deactivated2019]

Of course!!

[fandomshavecollided]

[macrolit]

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance.

Honore de Balzac (b. 20 May 1799)

[wordsiliketoshare]

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

Audrey Hepburn

[wordsiliketoshare]

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

[wordsiliketoshare]

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

E.E. Cummings

[wordsiliketoshare]

We're all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it.

The Breakfast Club

[wordsiliketoshare]

Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people

The Breakfast Club