"Because we're all capable of the most incredible change. We can evolve while still staying true to who we are. We can honor who we've been and choose who we want to be next."

-Steven Moffat

"Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drops, and gathers, and congeals."

-Sylvia Plath

"It is not that I wish to have none of the world,
It is that I am better at the pleasure enjoyed alone."

-Taigu Ryōkan

-Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

"I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow."

-Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

"From the moment I fell in love with you, everything became holy."

-Nazim Hikmet

"There are reasons to be sad, disconsolate, bitter, but there is not a single reason to be hopeless."

-Nazim Hikmet

"It made him think of the snow country cold, and yet, because of the darkness of her hair, there was a certain warmth in it."

-Kawabata, Snow Country

"all the intention of wishes, forgiveness,
 
this day’s singular existence in time,
the native field flourishing selfishly, only for itself."

-Ada Limón

"It means, if you’re alone,
when love is all around,
We all tip our lonely hats
in one un-lonely sound."

-Ada Limón

That it will never come again, is what makes life so sweet.

-Emily Dickinson

One of my favourite scenes of all time

I love them

"I know we share a secret
The same hiding place."

"Reading isn't only for pleasure or entertainment. Sometimes you need to examine the same lines deeply, read the same sentences over again.
Sometimes you sit there, head in hands, only progressing at a painstakingly slow pace.
And the result of all this hard work and careful study is that suddenly you're there and your field of vision expands.
It's like finding a great view at the end of a long climbing trail."

-Sōsuke Natsukawa,The Cat Who Saved Books