magnificent ruin

"Her only escape from discomfort was to sleep, which she began to do the way a cat does – which is to say, more or less constantly."

— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (via wordsnquotes)

"I’ve always loved you,
and when you love someone,
you love the whole person,
just as he or she is,
and not as you would like them to be."

"If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling."

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
(via wordsnquotes)

"Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas."