"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."
Arthur Golden, "Memoirs of a Geisha"
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The season is late autumn. No wind is blowing, but the air carries a chill. The date is just about to change.
- Haruki Murakami, After dark
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{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}
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Andrea Gibson
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner.
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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.
~ Nikita Gill
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— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.
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"And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you."
Kiersten White, "The Chaos of Stars"
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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
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{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}
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