me: i'll do it at 7PM
time: 7:02PM
me: oops too late gotta wait till 8 now
"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
Carson McCullers (via jesscissell)
Carson McCullers (via jesscissell)
(Source: blua, via fall-d-o-w-n)
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glace at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
Carl Sagan (via odil-e)
Carl Sagan (via odil-e)
(Source: carlsagan.com, via auxiliair)
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
Sylvia Plath (via theroseonthegrey)
Sylvia Plath (via theroseonthegrey)
(via auxiliair)
