vallès

"Space has always reduced me to silence."

-Jules Vallès, L’enfant
-Photo: Grace Kelly for LIFE Magazine, 1953 (x)

a nice quiet place

"Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Nice Quiet Place
-Photo: Shishi Yamazaki (x)

camus

"I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
-Photo: unknown (x)

woolf

"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
Photo: Sølve Sundsbø (x)

25/100

-Pablo Neruda,  100 Love Sonnets (x)

tender is the night

"And she wanted for a moment to hold him and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
-Photographer: Unknown (x)

selected letters

"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
-Photo: Unknown (x)

in the stacks #2

 

Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England. (x)

great expectations

"We changed again, and yet again, it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had solemnly risen now and the world lay spread before me."

-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
-Photo: Earth and Moon in a single frame, September 18, 1977 (x)

fly

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

-Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

-Photo: unkown (x)

a room of one's own

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind."

-A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
-Photo: Duke of Humphrey's Library, Oxford University, England (x)

greatest power

"In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe."

-A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin.

-Photos: Unknown (x)(x)

great bursts

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

-The Great Gatsby,  F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Photo: Colin Leaman (x)

when the train came

"Listen, I’m not entirely comfortable being human.

They say laughter is the best medicine
so I wrapped my arms up in swing set chains
just to see if I still have funny bones
I do.
They are aching now

like a foot
lost to a trap.
I’ve paid for these legs with my mother.
As soon as my stalk was long enough, I ran.
And though it is good to be here with you tonight
I’m still running."

- "When the Train Came,"  Buddy Wakefield

- Painting: "Seated Woman," Egon Schiele, 1913

air on fire

"We set the air on fire between us."

-White Oleander, Janet Finch
-Photo via

everything

(via)

the five people

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it.You're just passing it on to someone else."

-The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
-Painting: "Mother with Children," Gustav Klimt, 1910 (via)

the doctor

(via)

i am the messenger

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."

-I am the Messenger, Markus Zusak
-Photo: unknown (via)

the fault in our stars

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

-The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
-Photo: Henri Roger Viollet, 1883 (via)