“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.”— Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator
“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go.”— E.E. Cummings
I do think love is the most important thing in the world because it’s the only thing from this dunya we get to keep even after we die. Everything else we accumulated will become utterly meaningless but we will be reunited with those we love in jannah. Our bonds with people in this life will transcend even death, inshallah. How beautiful.
“Have a little bit of faith in yourself and let that be your most beautiful quality. Take in a little more of softness in your day to day tasks and allow your inner stillness to guide you into peaceful efficiency.”— Juansen Dizon, Working With Softness
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”— Elizabeth Taylor (via wnq-movies)
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“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”— V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State
“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”— James Joyce, To Nora Barnacle Joyce, 7 September 1909
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones?”— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that’s what was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness was a story told in the past tense.
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green