"If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
John Steinbeck, letter to his son Thom
"In this box are all the words I know,” he said. “Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places."
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
David Wojnarowicz, “Spiral”
"I face the horizon everywhere I go
I face the horizon
The horizon is my home"
I face the horizon
The horizon is my home"
Frank Turner, “The Road”
"There once was a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always."
Norman Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
"Whether or not you find your own way, you’re bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it’s quite rusty."
Norman Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
"I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone."
Life After God by Douglas Coupland (via thechocolatebrigade)
"Press the attack and hope for the best.’
‘Hope is not a strategy,’ said Kira.
‘It’s not plan A,’ said Jayden, ‘and it shouldn’t be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made."
‘Hope is not a strategy,’ said Kira.
‘It’s not plan A,’ said Jayden, ‘and it shouldn’t be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made."
Dan Wells, Partials
"I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile."
Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer
"If you can’t know the truth,” said Isolde, “live the most awesome lie you can think of."
Dan Well, Partials
"He was nowhere now. He had nothing, he knew nothing, he knew that he knew nothing. Not only had he been sent back to the beginning, he was now before the beginning, and so far before the beginning that it was worse than any end he could imagine."
Paul Auster, City of Glass
"I’m not a holy man,” Moloch said from behind his hand. “I’m not pious, and I’m not good. But if I were, your penance would be to start reaching for the things you want and giving up the things that will destroy you."
Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between
"It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance."
Ally Condie, Matched
"…loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable."
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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