"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." - Jhumpa Lahiri (via letteratura-litterature)

"What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?" - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (via quoted-books)

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." -

Lord Byron, Don Juan

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"There are two key elements to success.
1) Never tell anyone everything you know." - Renoirs (via renoirs)

"Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - Mark Twain (via feellng)

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy." - Kalu Ndukwe Kalu (via feellng)

"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books." - Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (via feellng)

"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking." - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever (via feellng)