"We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us. We just sort of accumulate them."
Lloyd Alexander
(Source: thebookguru, via beaubooks)
"We love life not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
Nietzsche
"You’ll never find the answers ‘til you set your old heart free."
“Hello My Old Heart,” The Oh Hello’s
"Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is."
Marianne Williamson (via breanna-lynn)
(Source: each-beat, via faith-is-not-blind)
"Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes."
The Winter of the Air (via akindofsunlight)
(via ginnabean)
My craft project of yesterday evening. Writing things out on a typewriter is about as artsy as I get.
(Source: idancee, via romanceplanet)
"I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica."
Stephen Chbosky
"Write to write. Write because you need to write. Write to settle the rage within you. Write with an internal purpose. Write about something or someone that means so much to you, that you don’t care what others think."
Nick Miller’s “Isn’t It Pretty To Think So?” (via meggannnn)
(via escapingsaccharinity)
I want to cry at how beautiful this is
Whose is this?! Breathtaking.
(Source: nothingbuttherain, via escapingsaccharinity)
