Silver Slipper

"I must inform you, Jonathan, that I am a very sad person. I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky."

"Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my

sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the

love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

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(via jadorelavie)

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curve of your lips rewrite history."

(via melcy)

"Somewhere unwritten poems wait, like lonely lakes not seen by anyone"

"Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late."

"She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still."

"She was rare, a perfect creation, a work of purest art. A delicate flower that bloomed in the liquid light of the moon. A nature not of this world, a personality like that of some biblical maiden, gracious and queenly."

"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."