December 2011
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where all the fruit is?
– Frank Scully (via maluna)
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...
– Anatole France (via girlwithoutwings)
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion...
– Virginia Woolf (via apathie)
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”
-Joan Didion
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
– Joan Didion (via drchulita07)
It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was...
– Ian McEwan (via creatingaquietmind)
… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)