August 2012
July 2012
“There’s a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It’s like breathing. You have to do it or you’ll die. And when it’s over, your soul starts to bleed. There’s no pain in the world like it, I swear.”
—Susan Wiggs, Summer At Willow Lake
“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”
—The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
—Judith McNaught, Remember When
“You can leave me if you have to, but I will never leave you.”
—Welcome to the Rileys (via 634northmain)
“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it. I believe this.”
—The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
—Leonardo da Vinci
“The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.”
—The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me you’d better go.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Beautiful and Damned
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist.”
—Danzy Senna, Caucasia
“I’ve had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That’s all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.”
—After Dark by Haruki Murakami
“You can’t put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren’t.”
—Jenny Han (We’ll Always Have Summer)
“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it’s a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
—Juliet Marillier
