“All our souls are written in our eyes.”
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac (via quoted-books)
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“When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant, who imagines or remembers a meeting when the other had passed by innocently.”
— The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje
Be ready. Great things are occurring in your life, and there are still so many more to come.
Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
“Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out.”
— Simon Van Booy, from “Little Birds,” The Secret Lives of People in Lov (Turtle Point Press, 2007) (via weltenwellen)
“That is exactly how I imagined paradise: silence and tears, and the warm silk of your knees.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, from “Beneficence,” The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage International, 1997)
“…all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.”
— The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje
(via austentatious)