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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

— Barry H. Gillespie

““I miss dreaming forwards,” Anna said. “What?” “I dream backwards now. You won’t believe how backwards you’ll dream someday.””

— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness (via quoted-books)

“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh 

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever. I didn’t mean exactly “forever,” I just included it for the rhythm.

— Dunya Mikhail, from “Non-Military Statements,” The War Works Hard tr. Elizabeth Winslow

Margaret Atwood, from “Dream”, Dearly

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

— The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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

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

“You have it now and that is all your life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?”

— For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“She would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love […] in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse

“Elle s'éveillait comme d'un songe, elle naissait à la passion.”

— Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

-Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

Antique French locket given new life and inscribed with the quote “Omnia Vincit Amor” - “Love Conquers All”

From @sacredmoonadornments 

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier (b. 17 December 1807)

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

—

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you―and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.”

— George Saunders