faith, trust & pixie dust.

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life.

—Ray Bradbury (via pavorst)

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

—David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King  (via prettypeachpeonies)

(Source: nequiquam, via eletheowl)

Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.

—- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You  (via patsta)

(via over-there)

You can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
; something not everyone knows how to love.

—“For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Warsan Shire (via sotla)

(via nineteen-decembers)