lavenderhayes
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"Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
"Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"The heat of the sun rested on me like a blanket of molten gold." - Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros
"There: soft fingers on vibrating steel, and a chord, shimmered into the air, nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star. A voice: warm and low and gentle, a voice to cast spells, charm snakes, shape the course of dreams." - Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
"Was this my punishment? To live out the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?" - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself." - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour." - Jennifer Saint, Elektra
“Heaven truly was an untouched stash of books, just waiting to be opened and read.” — Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
“Human lives are based on pain. But to have a few moments of happiness, lightnings tearing the darkness of the sky, that is worth it.”
- Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
“‘What if we go on … only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?’
…
‘Then it is not the end.’”
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4)
"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"Don't be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don't live a lonely life without love. I've been so worried that because of what happened you'll give up on falling in love… Love is wonderful. I don't want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
"The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul." - Motojirō Kajii, Landscapes of the Heart
"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"[He] could smell the distant winter on the air -- a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
""There is a saying,'What got you here won't get you there.'" "What does it mean?" I ask "That the same set of circumstances, beliefs, actions that got you to a moment won't get you to what comes next. If you want a different outcome, you have to behave differently. That you have to keep evolving."" - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"Day by day, the leaves of the trees along the streets turned to gold. It delighted me to see how well the changing colors matched the slow transformation happening inside me." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"And so my days drifted by, a joyous mix of sun worship, escaping from lessons, and the heavy leaden smell of paint." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
"I wanted to see the whole world for myself. I wanted to see the whole range of possibilities. Your life is yours. It doesn't belong to anyone else. I wanted to know what it would mean to live life on my own terms." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours and then be willing to let it go." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"My dreams were like the finest, sweetest honey. And I was like a honeybee, flying in search of more." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"...we knew we were lucky to live there. Or we thought we knew anyway; you can never know how lucky you are to have something until it's taken away." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
"The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean," - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"We're still friends. I just can't trust her or tell her anything important." - Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer