“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” 

| Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska by John Green

*irrelevant photo HAHA

“And finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn’t disturb it any more violently than by looking outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.”

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To betterment, Rilke. To betterment.

tags: #books #good reads

To fill up and live.

Will be reading this baby as soon as I have freed myself from all of these academic responsibilities and shiz. :D

And because it’s June already. Hoho. :)

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“Comfort me with apples, for I am tired of love.”

-Diana Maciver | When Madeline was Young

(Isabel Gillies, Happens Every Day; p.188)

(Isabel Gillies, Happens Every Day; p.137)

“But then I suddenly knew something was about to go wrong. And it did.”

“Still, I bet that nine out of ten people would never guess that he was that guy. I certainly didn’t. I blamed the women. And I do get that it takes two to tango. That there is always a push and pull. I think it’s shortsighted to think that something is just one person’s fault, that there is no cause and effect. But still I found it easier to blame the women.”

(Isabel Gillies, Happens Every Day; p.65)

But he left her. Josiah left Isabel and their two sons. And it’s an all-true story. 

*From Happens Ever Day by Isabel Gillies

Read: I might flood your dashes with Happens Every Day quotes. Lol. Been on hiatus for weeks! :)) 

"I’ve always found happiness to be the strangest thing. It seems so simple the moment it truly happens. As if it had been there the whole time, just waiting to be called on."

— Paul Mauro | Strange Skies by Matt Marinovich

"Most people, I think, go through their whole lives vaguely pretending they’re nicer than they really are."

— Paul Mauro | Strange Skies by Matt Marinovich

Clare Abshire, The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)