“I Can Move Everything But On.”

““Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.””

— Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Truth, Discworld book 25

“What is love if not falconry? Tugging the humble out of something wild.”

— Hala Alyan, “Gospel: Rumi,” from The Twenty-Ninth Year

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic”

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (via the-book-diaries)

Do not look for my heart any more, the beasts have eaten it.

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (via the-book-diaries)

“Some things are holy enough that they deserve to only be done well.”

— Jared Singer, “Why I Will Never Learn to Play the Cello”

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

— Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape

“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli (via the-book-diaries)

“I used to build dreams about you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald // Benediction