She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
Jeanette Winterson (via ihatenietzsche)
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Daphne du Maurier (via adimlylitmirror)
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
Anais Nin, from Susan Cain’s Quiet
I often say Sociology is a martial art. A means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
Pierre Bourdieu
I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
Sylvia Plath (via elige)