I Met A Genius On The Train Today About 6 Years Old, He Sat Beside Me And As The Train Ran Down Along

“I do not know how long regret lived in our house before it finally evicted us.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink 

I do not believe that things will turn out well; but the idea that they might — that is of vital importance.

— Theodor Adorno

…Anything worth dying for … is certainly worth living for.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (via the-book-diaries)

But never have I been a calm blue sea. I have always been a storm.

Stevie Nicks, Storms (via music-and-quotes)

I want you to undress me to the sound of all your defenses collapsing.

Lora Mathis (via wordsnquotes)

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via the-book-diaries)

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but it is always the blood of others. That is why some philosophers feel free to say just about anything.”

— Albert Camus, Actuelles I (via philosophybits)

“You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.”

— Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls

…human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)