Quotes

[Nick9]

Have you read any nice thing lately? Something that made you smile or think?

Would you share? mile:

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
written by John Green, Looking for Alaska

[Mrmatty77]

"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul."
-David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”
-Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo


"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
-John Green, Paper Towns


"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream."
-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


"Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.

But...if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!.

Yes. Anybody in the world. ..But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from the another's vantage point. As if new, it may still take our breath away. Come...dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home."
-Alan Moore, Watchmen


"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."
-Alan Moore, V For Vendetta

[Nick9]

There are moments of such pure, sublime, unparalleled perfection that they will force you to close your eyes and hold on to them as best as you can. Being with you is one of those moments.

(Source: nobodyknowsthelastofme)

[Nick9]

Part of me knows one more day won’t do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

written by Gayle Forman, “Just One Day”

[Nick9]

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

written by John Lennon

[Nick9]

[Nick9]

[cardiganwearer]

"Quotes found on the web are often misattributed", George Washington.

[Nick9]

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

written by Alberto Manguel

[SolemnBoy]

"A girl who can't become a princess has no choice but to become a witch."

"I wonder if the flowers themselves are happy, being forced to last so long. Eternity doesn’t exist in this world, does it? It’s just that one would think that a heart that longs for eternity is beautiful."

^ Quotes from Revolutionary Girl Utena.