February 2011
I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much. It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
— Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery
“I would like to get out of this place. But outside, rain is falling, the...”
– colette, ‘moments of stress’ (1913), in robert phelps, ed., the collected stories of colette, p.138. (via modernistwomen)
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The...”
– Albert Einstein (via thatisntverychanel)
“I want to be like water, I want to slip through fingers but hold up a ship.”
– Michelle Williams (via weepingclouds)
“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers...”
– Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don’t be like the book snobs who won’t do...”
– Low Men In Yellow Coats, Hearts In Atlantis (via colinwilkes)
“Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides…. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous.
...”
– Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) (via recycled-words, teaat6)
Woolgathering
sealimbs:
wool·gath·er·ing / wool-gath-er-ing / Noun.
1. Indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
“A real panic took hold of me. I didn’t know where I was going. I ran along the...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
