Fyodor Dostoevsky, From The Idiot

“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”

— Joseph Mitchell

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“If by romantic they mean someone who dreams, I am a romantic, but I shall keep my crown of dreams a secret.”

— Anais Nin, 1917

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

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

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

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics