Regulus *after Being Forced To Admit He Has Feelings For James*: Where's My Oscar For Pretending Everything

If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away their cynicism if they could. The majority just never get the chance.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)

if someone asks me at the end, i’d tell them

PUT ME BACK IN IT

I WOULD DO IT AGAIN

IF I COULD HOLD YOU FOR A MINUTE

ID GO THROUGH IT AGAIN

I WOULD STILL BE SUPRISED

I COULD FIND YOU, DARLIN

IN ANY LIFE

IF I COULD HOLD YOU FOR A MINUTE

I WOULD DO IT AGAIN

I’m always happy…Sometimes I just forget.

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

It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via the-book-diaries)

Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.

(via love-diaries)

Había aprendido que si escuchabas intensa y largamente, muchas personas te dirían más de lo que ellas pensaban que sabían.

El ladrón del tiempo, Terry Pratchett. (via date-prisa-estamos-leyendo)

Know this.

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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via the-book-diaries)