I am amazed

"At the next song switch, I hang back. I want to see this as well as be a part of it. I want to remember it for what it is. I am amazed by the love I feel for so many people. I am amazed at the randomness, the comedy and the faith that brings us all together and makes us hold on. I open myself wide to take it all in. The scene plays out like a rhapsody."

―Boy Meets Boy; David Levithan

all the bright places...

"I've been so worried about him, this boy I love, more worried than I knew until right this moment, staring up at the solar system. This is the single loveliest thing anyone's ever done for me. It's movie lovely. It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing that it can't already has me sad."

—All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

when I travel

"But as always when I travel, there is a palpable excitement to get home. Just a short plane ride away is my New York, my girlfriend, my dictionary, and all the other things, small and large, that make life so enjoyable. Some of them alphabetised."

—Reading the Oxford English Dictionary; Ammon Shea

keepsake

"keepsake (n.) The fake feather that you found, now in my wallet; incomplete creature, completed by memory."

—The Lover's Dictionary (Unabridged); David Levithan

the diary of frida kahlo

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world. But then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true, I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

―The Diary of Frida Kahlo; Frida Kahlo

fall on your knees

"Dark and sweet, the elixir of love is in her mouth. The more I drink, the more I remember all the things we've never done. I was a ghost until I touched you. Never swallowed mortal food until I tasted you, never understood the spoken word until I found your tongue. I've been a sleep-walker, sad somnambula, hands outstretched to strike the solid thing that could awaken me to life at last. I have only ever stood here under this lamp, against your body. I've missed you all my life."

—Fall On Your Knees; Ann-Marie MacDonald

the typewriter even now

"On that piece of white paper Sam wrote, 'Write about me sometime.' And I typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. I just typed, 'I will.'"

—The Perks Of Being A Wallflower; Stephen Chbosky

unprecedented

“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

—The Fault In Our Stars; John Green

all of the stars

No words for how beautiful this is.

tender is the night

"I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."

—Tender Is The Night; F. Scott Fitzgerald

what happens next

"It's like this light coming out of you. I could be in a crowd of thousands and know right where to find you."

—What Happens Next; Colleen Clayton

a farewell to arms

"I am so in love with you that there isn't anything else."

—A Farewell To Arms; Ernest Hemingway

this star won't go out

“I feel very lucky to know you—and as far as I have seen, to know you is literally to love you.”

—This Star Won't Go Out; Esther Earl

holding something

"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."

Eleanor & Park; Rainbow Rowell

I: love, scrawl these skies

Reading boy meets boy, thinking of the Doctor and his Grumpy Cat pages, breathing in graffiti—pale—whimsy, collecting hours until I feel Yellowcard in the furthest light, feeling like my favourite kind of ocean.

the moment

That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. 

An Abundance Of Katherines; John Green

the human stain

"But the pleasure isn't owning the person. The pleasure is this—having another contender in the room with you.

—The Human Stain; Philip Roth

you are a detective

This gave me my last smile before sleep—a page taken from How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith.

[via ffffound via don't touch my moleskine via keri smith.]

on the road

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn.

On The Road; Jack Kerouac


I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

On The Road; Jack Kerouac

you shall know our velocity

"But see how we are the same? You and I, Will? We both see strangers and we react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. We're broken when people can't meet us halfway. We can't accept the limits of normal human relations—chilly, clothed, circumscribed. Our hearts pull against their leashes, Will!"

You Shall Know Our Velocity; Dave Eggers