Lauren

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.”
― James Joyce, The Dead (A Novella)

“The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.”
― Pat R, O Pijama da Gata

“The mind writes with a pen, the heart, with a pencil.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“even nightingales can’t live on songs alone.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons