You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wall paper is in flames.

- Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip  (via itoncewassaid)

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life.

- Zelda Fitzgerald (via girlwithoutwings)

(Source: quote-book)

But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.

- Pack Up the Moon by Anna McPartlin (via quote-book)