“Everybody Knows That Really Intimate Conversation Can Only Take Place Between Two Or Three. Even If

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”

— John Greenleaf Whittier (b. 17 December 1807)

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.”

— George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (via wordsnquotes)

“But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of the soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank