An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
— Charles Bukowski (via bohoscribe)
In greek mythology, it’s said that humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them apart and condemned them to spending their whole lives searching for their missing halves.
Back when I was sixteen I thought of him like he was my really cool boyfriend. People would say ‘How can you have a dead poet for a boyfriend?’ But to me it wasn’t so different from liking a boy in your class who might not like you—both situations would be unrequited.
— Patti Smith on Arthur Rimbaud (via knockturn)
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— C.S. Lewis (via enchants)
“Have you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
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John Green - Looking for Alaska
(via bookshavepores)
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
— C.S. Lewis. (via sequentialassassin)
In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.
— Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt. May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
— Jane Eyre, Chapter 27 (via forbiddenalleys)
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
— Chuck Palahniuk (Haunted)
