“What is love if not falconry? Tugging the humble out of something wild.”
— Hala Alyan, “Gospel: Rumi,” from The Twenty-Ninth Year
Brienne Christopher Bull
Mammatus skies at Ross Lake, Washington
Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase
— Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”, from Glass, Irony and God
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Cormac McCarthy (via quotemadness)
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (via the-book-diaries)
“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli (via the-book-diaries)
via schulzmuseum