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(Source: ossiebigtree)

"You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, “Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful."

-Amelia Pond (via fawun)

(Source: venebelle)

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

-Charles Baudelaire (via abagofbooks)

(Source: adieufranz)

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1864, [post mortem portrait of two children], Squyer Studio

via Looking at Death, Barbara Norfleet

thepocketmouse:

“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”

- George Orwell, Why I Write

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.

booklover:

“So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger - because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

—

Jack Kerouac (via freecocaine)

(Source: uponswallows)

(Source: lavendernights)

"You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her."

-Pan’s Labyrinth (via tenderskin)