“Her eyes welled up again. I’m embarassed to admit it, but she’d become even prettier since she started crying. Her eyes were damp and bright, with gold flecks in the brown irises.”
—Danny Tobey
June 2011
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.”
—William P. Young, The Shack (via makelovetothemoon)
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.”
—Sarah Dessen (via atomos)
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
—Jeanette Winterson (via atomos)
“You can’t make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”
—Sarah Dessen (via kari-shma)
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
—Lao Tzu (via atomos)
