V. What the Thunder Said

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

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Jorge Luis Borges (via youarenotrational)

(via our-stars)

(via booksandnerds)

Because paper has more patience than people.

—Anne Frank (via pavorst)

(via booksandnerds)

There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.

—Jack Canfield (via booksandnerds)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via booksandnerds)

Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh

—Charles Bukowski (via langste)

(via sailorsknot-sailorsmouth)

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate with such speed. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we’d understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we’d have kept a tighter hold of one another.

—Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go  (via timequakes)

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