Philip Pullman, The Shadow In The North

Then he said to me, “Don’t people touch each other at your house?” “What’s that supposed to mean?” “I just wondered,” he said. “You flinch every time someone touches you.”

Flinching, Page 65–Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech (via jostenneil)

I am not yet a king, but I got moxie and I move // like I know I’ll die young.

Rachel McKibbens, from “Minneapolipstick,” published in Poem-a-Day (via lifeinpoetry)

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Haruki Murakami (via quotemadness)

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde (via 4oclockonatuesday)

it’s so hard to maintain a chill aesthetic when you have a raging temper and uncontrollable need to have the last word no matter how petty the situation

so the boy is not a wolf– but he bites like one. when you tell everyone he has teeth, he just smiles and smiles.

ON NOT SAYING WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN IN THE FACE OF TRAUMA, Trista Mateer  (via tristamateer)