And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
Kendall. Canadian. 21. Books. Tea. Music. Poetry. University. ¼ funny ¾ ridiculous. I have no recollection of what life was like before One Direction. Sad, I know. More often than not, I live under the false pretence that what interests me automatically fascinates others. I will eventually learn this is not true. In the meantime: here, have some obsessive reblogs and incoherent tags.


"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."

— Phyllis McGinely


"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing"

— Samuel Smiles

posted 7 months ago with Notes
#Samuel Smiles #quote #dreams

"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! We return."

— E. M. Forster

posted 7 months ago with 0 notes
#E. M. Forster #quote

"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence."

— Arabic Proverb (via mirnanoaman)

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posted 7 months ago with 16,496 notes (originally from alyblaugrana)
#quote #this is beautiful

"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for."

— Paulo Coelho (via thresca)

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posted 8 months ago with 3,706 notes (originally from thresca)
#quote

"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

— Ernest Hemingway


"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

— Ernest Hemingway

posted 8 months ago with Notes
#Ernest Hemingway #QUOTE

"And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy."

— Edgar Allan Poe  (via unpublishedwriting)

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posted 8 months ago with 19,731 notes (originally from noeticfilms)
#edgar allen poe #quote

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

— Charles Dickens