I Like The Dark Part Of The Night, After Midnight And Before Four-thirty, When It’s Hollow, When Ceilings

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape (via the-book-diaries)

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” - Irwin Shaw (via quotemadness)

via @quotemadness

I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via the-book-diaries)

I’m always happy…Sometimes I just forget.

Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (via the-book-diaries)

me walking into the animal shelter: hi id like the stupidest cat you have

12/03/2018

imagine being a hogwarts kid who has a basic understanding of latin and can thus make their own spells

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via the-book-diaries)

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters (via the-book-diaries)