I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
– Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Ph : Ruslan Lobanov
We get a little further from perfection,
each year on the road,
I guess that’s what they call character …
why don’t you touch me where I’m rusty,
let me stain your hands
– Ani DiFranco –
… each breath is recycled from someone else’s lungs …
you can talk a great philosophy
but if you can’t be kind to people every day
it doesn’t mean that much to me
it’s the little things you do
the little things you say
it’s the love you give along the way
– Ani DiFranco –
Ph : Leanne Surfleet
When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things…
– Ani DiFranco – Little Plastic Castle
You can’t resist love
because the hands want to own the beauty
and not stun years of silence.
Because love is living two-thousand dreams
until the sublime kiss.
– Alda Merini –
Ph : Ellen Rogers
All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope
– Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
– Rainer Maria Rilke –
Ph : Dmitry Ageev
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
– Edna O’Brien – Saints and Sinners
What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
– Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
Ph : Leanne Surfleet
That sweet night: a secret.
Nobody saw me;
I did not see a thing.
No other light, no other guide
than the one burning in my heart.
– San Juan de la Cruz – Dark Night of the Soul
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