quollection

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”

To love another is something / like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall / into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

I want to read and write and be very quiet.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other, who think the same thoughts without need of speech.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.