Quote of the Day...

“When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but rather a confusion, a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard are powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all, when you're telling it to yourself or someone else.”

Narrator, The Stories We Tell.

Quote Of The Day...

"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others."
-Marlow, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Quote of the day...

“After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,

And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure…

That you really are strong

And you really do have worth…

And you learn and learn…

With every good-bye you learn.”

Jorge Luis Borges, “You Learn” (via styleshire)

Quote of the day...

“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) – my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can – then lay it aside – taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh – the mind new to it. If there’s no jar in the new reading, well and good – that’s sufficient for me.”

-Walt Whitman (via writingquotes)