February 2012
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...”
– Haruki Marakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via literaturesluts)
“Heart and head are contrary historians.”
– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via larmoyante)
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain (via larmoyante)
“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite...”
– Agatha Christie, Partners In Crime (via larmoyante)
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
– Sophocles (via larmoyante)
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the...”
– Oscar Wilde (via larmoyante)
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice:...”
– Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (via larmoyante)
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
– George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (via larmoyante)
“I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to...”
– Charles de Lint, Moonlight and Vines (via larmoyante)
“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story,...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (via larmoyante)
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via larmoyante)
