“I Sleep, I Sleep / Too Long,”

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

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Soft and exquisite,”

— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “A Partridge Sky for the Cassia Flower.” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

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

“Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet. Far away the sea sounds and resounds. This is a port. Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You” (via oofpoetry)

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

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

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)