Anna Akhmatova, from Selected Poems; “Don’t Frighten Me,” c. October 1959
Tag: quotes
“Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
— Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
Alejandra Pizarnik
“So I wasn’t lovable,
So I was an untamable, wild thing.
I kicked and spat and did not smile
at men because they looked at me. Woman?
I preferred animal – Just me and my moors,
that freezing chill
that reddened my cheeks
more than flattery ever could. My words poured out of me not like flowers blooming
but like wasps from their nest,
they, like me, were not meant to be pretty.”— Bronte (a.v.p)
Books have paved my path.
HARRY POTTER + first lines
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
— Isabel Allende (b. 2 August 1942)
and you, whose voice is soft as a turned page,
whose voice unrolls paper, whose voice returns
air to its forms—
Rebecca Lindenberg, excerpt of “Litany”, in Love, An Index (via antigonick)
“she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”
— Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
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