Carmen Maria Machado, In The Dream House

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

— Barry H. Gillespie

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

“Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will.”

— Unknown 

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush”