“What Thing Worthy Of Love Can Be Found In Me?”

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)

La pureté est absolument invulnérable en tant que pureté (...). Mais elle est éminemment vulnérable en ce sens que toute atteinte du mal la fait souffrir (S. Weil, Pesanteur, 1943, p. 79).

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

— Joanne Harris (via quotemadness)

“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

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

“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.

mary oliver, the pond

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)