aseaofquotes: Zadie Smith, On Beauty
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all."

-Evelyn Waugh  (via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: hellanne)


"That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."

-Haruki Murakami, IQ84 (via unsunglory)

hermionejg: homeboy <3
"She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn’t mean anything but that I didn’t think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her."

-Albert Camus (via madamenova)

"

I want to thank everyone who helped me create this book, except for that guy who yelled at me in Kmart when I was eight because he thought I was being “too rowdy.”


You’re an asshole, sir.

"

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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

The best book dedication ever.


"She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his chest. She likes to hear his voice this way, as if it begins not in his throat but in his body, like a hum or a growl, or like a voice speaking from deep underground. Like the blood moving through her own heart: a word, a word, a word."

-Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via ignify)

(Source: larmoyante)


"What does love feel like?
Like you live inside someone, like an owl in a hollow tree."

-Caitlin Moran (via heliophobus)

(Source: Guardian)


"And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them."

-Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor (via ihatenietzsche)

(Source: quotes-shape-us)


"Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers."

-Margaret Atwood, Good Bones (via loveyourchaos)

(Source: larmoyante)