“As I get older, I find I get more and more disagreeably solitary; In fact I foresee the day when I shall have gone too far into myself that there will no longer be anything to be seen of me at all. Will you, please, remember to pull away the coverings from time to time? Or I shall get quite lost.”
—Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated April 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)
June 2013
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
—F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”
—Anaïs Nin (via dulcetdecember)
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“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via a-quiet-old-soul)
^this.
(via intoxicatedbyrazorblades)
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
—warm bodies by isaac marion
