“It Is Madness To Hate All Roses Because You Got Scratched With One Thorn.”

“There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.”

— Elizabeth David (via quotemadness)

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps (via wordsnquotes)

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.

— Silas House, Eli the Good

“Love isn’t like it is in the books.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald; Emotional Bankruptcy

“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m grateful for that.”

— Ally Condie; Matched

“Why was ‘plain’ a euphemism for ‘ugly,’ when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her – something having to do with who she really was.”

— Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“I love your name. (…) I pray it into the night till its letters are light.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, from Name in “Rapture”