“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
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by A. Milne (via thedarlingchild)(Source: lavandula, via whoisemmaa)
“Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
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by John Green (Looking for Alaska)(Source: quotelibrary.info, via myquotelibrary)
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.
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by David Orr (via stfuconservatives) (via libraryatsea, free-wilderness)
“He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.
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by Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island (via larmoyante)