I wanted to cry …

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

 

- Anita Diamant

jam

Everything would be right in the world if you’d come over and make me toast with butter and jam.

Whoever wants …

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

- Hermann Hesse

Holding people away …

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.

- Sarah Dessen

he’s growing on me.

the pacific

listen.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

- Holly Black

I’m mad about …

I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk.

- Alice Walker

ooo

if …

Tell me …

Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are.

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin