"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)
start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret
i have not stopped thinking about this goodreads review for a MOMENT since i read it. it pingpongs in my head at all times. yesterday i walked into the kitchen and i realized i hadn't washed the pot from the night before, and said coldly, "the work of a sad little man who needs to see the ocean." unreal. i know i am changed.
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. October 1936, featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 2
26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov
Ray Bradbury, the lake
When Boromir said “the world of men will fall and all will come to darkness and my city to ruin” and when Theoden said “what can men do against such reckless hate” and when Frodo said “there’s nothing no veil between me and the wheel of fire.”
― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories
[text ID: It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four.]
“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (via weltenwellen)
David Levithan / Every Day
a lot of you know me for the "my psychiatrist asks me about friendship & i tell him about distance" excerpt but its been almost a year since i wrote it & the whole piece still resonates so i thought id share (x)
𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹
[ID: August 10. Wrote nothing. END ID]
-Zoë Lianne
musings on august
NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED BY SOME TO DREAM
— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King