May 2012
“i’m going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.”
—elsie de wolfe
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there’s always another perspective.”
—Tom Perrotta on fiction vs. religion (via nprfreshair)
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“And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.”
—The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia (via billowy)
“Sometimes I think that my whole life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.”
—Sherlock Holmes, The Red Headed League (via moldavia)
“Ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain” —“Dover Beach”, Matthew Arnold (via moldavia)
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain” —“Dover Beach”, Matthew Arnold (via moldavia)
