the-book-diaries:

“I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

bookmania:

The one real requirement of life: an openness to what is lovely among all the rest that isn’t.

Sylvia Plath

(Source: bookmania)

the-book-diaries:

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

the-book-diaries:

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

the-book-diaries:

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”

— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf