“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
— Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
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• 29 January 2012 • 1,075 notes
“
I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince (via girlinlondon)
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• 28 January 2012 • 335 notes
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
— Anaïs Nin (via moldavia)
(Source: very-quotable, via jadorelavie)
• 28 January 2012 • 665 notes
“He said it would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody goodbye in the morning thinking they were your own family.”
— J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (via knockturn)
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• 27 January 2012 • 82 notes