There's Nothing More Intimate Than Reading Someone's Personal Book Collection .

i am completely normal and i don’t crave love every day at all (i look for it in every nook and cranny and these days the sun sinks too soon and the cold encloses my bones in a vice-like grip and december will come and go and it’ll be just another year i’m left without love)

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

crying because your heart is so full of love and there aren’t any words in the world capable of translating the feeling that’s flooding your whole being is the. Best type of crying actually

“She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter — a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.”

— Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

beginning of a snow storm, 2004

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects