- "every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. it really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust." lawrence m.krauss
- "memories are what warm you up from the inside. but they're also what tear you apart." haruki murakami
- "i would like to be the air / that inhabits you for a moment / only. i would like to be that unnoticed / & that necessary." margaret atwood
- "if you died, it would be like my bones had been removed. no one would know why, but i would collapse." sarah kane
- "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 have all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. not just one world. hundreds of them. thousands maybe." neil gaiman
- "if I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, i'd put shoes on my cat." unknown
- "i can be alone without being lonely; i can be lonely without being alone." unknown
- "you are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. you are what you take from these. you are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. you are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. you are every single day. so drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. let the words run through your veins and let the colours fill your mind." unknown
- "i guess that's the beauty of books. when they finish they don't really finish." markus zusack
- "it's a dangerous business, stepping outside your front door. you never know where you might get swept off to." the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien
- "i want to live simply. i want to sit by the window when it rains and read books i'll never be tested on. i want to paint because I want to, not because i've got something to prove. i want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. i want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. i just want to be, boundless and free." unknown
- "cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience." michael stevens
- “the best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought special, particular to you. and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. and it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.” alan bennett
- "courage doesn’t always roar. / sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, / “i will try again tomorrow.” Mary Ann Radmacher
- "your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn't. it simply files things away. it keeps things for you, or hides things from you — and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. you think you have a memory; but it has you." a prayer for owen meany, john irving
- "It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die." Paolo Nutini
oct 13 2013 ∞
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