“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.“ - Carl Sagan
“The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”
—Amy Harmon, The Song of David (via wordsnquotes)
“It eventually gets better, without any sort of explanation; you just wake up one morning and you’re not as upset anymore.”
—Ten words story: may 2015 hold that morning for you. (via maisjetaime)
