Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
— G.K. Chesterton
Every cook has to understand that it’s not about the theatrics of the dish, it’s about the memory you’re left with when your plate is empty.
— Chef Mark McEwan
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
— Elizabeth Scott (via kari-shma)
I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts and of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
— Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep), The Hours
There are just lots of possibilities in the world…I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn’t happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
— Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
— A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future.
— Change Of Heart by Jodi Picoult
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
— Sylvia Plath (via julie911)
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, perfomrming a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.
— Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Is it possible for this woman to not be adorable?
I can’t when she talks about her mother, I look at mine and just think “Never die bitch, or I’ll kill you”
(via jolieheaven)
The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
— Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
