People Who Read are a little fucked up

That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

—Lorrie Moore, Self-Help (via larmoyante)

We all, sometimes, leave each other out there under the skies, and we never understand why.

—Truman Capote (via likeafieldmouse)

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

—Rumi (via larmoyante)

The belief that the commonplace is really worth looking at, and the courage to look at it with a minimum of theorizing