“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March.. . . . . . . . . I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world… I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of […]
Category Archives: Quotes
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall (2010)
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“It was books that made me feel like I was not completely alone.”- Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince (2011)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, (1959)
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
“One day she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”- E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (2014)
Journeys End
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so […]