“I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.”
—The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
August 2010
“I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don’t know how.”
—Son of the Shadows, Juliet Marillier (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
—Different Seasons, Stephen King (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”
—Surrender, Sonya Hartnett (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
—The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
—Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Sometimes you just want to put other people’s happiness before yours, because you love them, because they deserve it. Sometimes you want to go out of your way for other people just because you know that it’s important that they get a chance to smile once in a while.”
—Anonymous (via midwestskiesandpleasantgoodbyes)
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”
—The Sweet Far Thing, Libba Bray (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
