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Unknown // Carole Anne Trisler

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Charles Bukowski

"We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they're not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence."

—Beau Taplin, Neatly As Novels

"If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."

—Mik Everett

"If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself."

—Nikita Gill

"I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods."

—Rebecca Solnit

—Beau Taplin, Moon Phases

—H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Monday mornings are literally the hardest and I don't want to deal with any responsibilities whatsoever, but we got this 😤

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray, O. Wilde

I feel like I’m just “trying to get through the day,” every day. My entire life is slipping through my fingers.

The curse of aesthetic...

I'm sending you love and poetry, darling

1. V.E. Schwab // 2. Unknown // 3. Rudolph Vitkauskas // 4. Charles Bukowski // 5. Margaret Atwood

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green

“This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

— Courtney C. Stevens

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett

“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“Sometimes, home has a heartbeat.”

— Beau Taplin

“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

— Joanne Harris

“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”

— William Alexander Percy 

“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

— Yann Martel 

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up.”

— Sarah Ockler 

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.”

— George Orwell 

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

“I was in love with her; couldn’t imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.”

— Jamie McGuire 

“You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.”

— Silas House 

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

— Katherine Henson