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I want to know you whether you’re afraid of sharks or spiders death or love.

I want to know if it’s grammatical errors that drive you crazy or the people correcting them, if you’re more comfortable shaking sand out of your hair or snow, if you prefer coffee or tea, bars or board game nights.

I want to know which of your friends you’ve cried in front of, if you’ve ever laughed chocolate milk out of your nose, or kissed someone you didn’t love.

I want to know you the you beneath the layer of small talk always kept shined and smudgeless

I’m just hoping one day you’ll invite me in.

- Kristen Costello

She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.

Alexandra Bracken, Passenger (via the-book-diaries)

I’m always happy…Sometimes I just forget.

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (via the-book-diaries)

Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent–mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way (via the-book-diaries)

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (via the-book-diaries)

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)

Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.

Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (via the-book-diaries)

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were in woven with her deepest life.

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (via the-book-diaries)

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Thomas Moore (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.

Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (via the-book-diaries)

I want you next to me, in my bed, your clothes making friends with my floor. Love me hard enough so we wake up the neighbors.

Nishat Ahmed, Literary Sexts (via the-book-diaries)

When crows remember people who wronged them and hold grudges, it’s ‘intelligent’ and ‘really cool’ but when I do it I’m ‘petty’ and ‘need to move on’.

Sirius Black (via incorrectmarauderquotes)

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.

Nina LaCour, Hold Still (via the-book-diaries)

Stranger Things? Dramatic? Nooo.

I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via the-book-diaries)

It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via the-book-diaries)

Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via the-book-diaries)

If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via the-book-diaries)

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via the-book-diaries)

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via the-book-diaries)

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via the-book-diaries)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via the-book-diaries)

I asked the universe to fall in love And the universe answered First I fell in love with the dirt beneath my feet Molding itself around each step I planted Then I fell in love with the growing seeds, brushing against my ankles Even the weeds didn’t hold me back, for I loved them too Next I loved the sea, crashing against my kneecaps with fury and grace With each cold wave I was reminded of the warmth in my breath After that I loved the air, pushing me forward And forcing my stubborn gaze upon a new horizon Finally I looked up, and loved the sunlight Shining on my skin, nourishing a glow no one else could replicate Soon after, I met you I remembered how wonderful it felt to love And thought, perhaps, it might feel just as good to love you I asked the universe to fall in love And the universe answered I saw your disgust at the mud paths I walked along As you criticized the thorns prodding my ankles When the sea crashed a little too hard, you did not attempt to lift me up But instead only showed your strength to pull me away from the wind’s current Then, I found that when I looked to the sky, the sun no longer shined the way it used to Instead it lay dark, covered by a single greedy cloud So I decided not to love you For as much as I loved to love And tried to love The universe answered And the answer was no

(a.e.)

Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.

E.R. Frank, Life Is Funny (via the-book-diaries)

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via the-book-diaries)

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius (via the-book-diaries)

I want too much, she thought. I want everything. I want day and night, sleeping and waking, world without end, amen. Someone warned her once that it was fatal to tell a man you loved him. ‘What I really want,’ she said, ‘deep down, is stillness, safety. The feeling you’d always be there. I love you. I think I must have loved you without knowing it all my life.’

Daphne Du Maurier, Don’t Look Now & Other Stories (via the-book-diaries)

Había aprendido que si escuchabas intensa y largamente, muchas personas te dirían más de lo que ellas pensaban que sabían.

El ladrón del tiempo, Terry Pratchett. (via date-prisa-estamos-leyendo)