“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Nights here are different from the city nights. There, you hear cars, trains. Here the houses are old and creaky. Almost like they’re speaking.
& C O M I N G S O O N
18 ROOMS; $37,000; I’M YOURS; GHOSTS AND ALL.
POSTED May 24, 2013 @ 20:25 WITH 8 notes
That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing. Whether they came at him with tenderness or subterfuge or knives.
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via petrichour)
Petra, Jordan.
An ancient city famous for its rock-carved architecture and water-conduit system. May have been built up to 2,300 years ago.
She could not find any pure new words which had never been ruffled and creased and had the starch taken out of them by others.
- Virginia Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction Of Virginia Woolf (via petrichour)
POSTED May 23, 2013 @ 23:28 WITH 585 notes
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