October 2011
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.”
—Leonardo da Vinci (via girlwithoutwings)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via light-essence)
“Even though many people seem to be not interested in art or in things like nature or life itself, we must force ourselves to remember, we must force ourselves to be deep in life.”
—Viggo Mortensen (via imfantasyparade)
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.”
—Amy Lowell (via imfantasyparade)
“You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
—Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights (via thegirlandherbooks)
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
—Jack Layton (via pleasedontgo)