beyond the bookshelf

“That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

“I’m not so weird to me.”

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

Part 2 of my sketchbook!

“And if five times you ask yourself, / What am I doing here? set your bed on fire, / let it burn, and leave.”

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

“One day I’ll find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”