I went out in search of diversion and ended up at a funeral.
my man Dostoevsky is so funny😭😭
Water, John Boyne
Kill me already
“it’s peculiar, how much more drawn people are to disaster than to beauty.”
- In Memoriam, Alice Winn.
I wondered why anyone would want to build anything out of sand, when tomorrow it will be gone, and you’d have nothing to show for your day.
- Carrie Soto is back, Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Just wanted to add this one's my first Dostoevsky book, and man! He's amazing, I can't believe I didn't think of picking it before)
Edit- this exchange was damn relatable and funny ;)
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
James Baldwin
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables