author: xandra
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
“He is self-conscious because everyone knows he has wings but they've never seen him fly. Now & then there will be a feather in odd places or maybe a footprint to show he was there. All in all, he thinks it's nobody else's business what he does with his free time.” ―Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True
“That was desire messing with physics: putting its finger on the record and then slowing it down, making sure you heard every word spoken, and memorized it.” ― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel
“But to be well and use strength to get more out of life is, surely, the greatest fun in the world.” —Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
“And it all comes out so lame. I love your mouth. I love your hair. I love your ears. I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.” ― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.”
― J. Paul Getty
“We met our love in the February air
And the lives we had before,
They began to tear”
― Eric Overby, Legacy
“I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it’s perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
― John Wooden
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“I was content to shape the quiet into the structures I wanted.” ― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong
got a new guestbook for the cafe; come and visit my capsule to sign. :) thanks, ocean for making it!
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“The thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“In another universe, another you also wonders if the multiverse theory is true.”
― Rajesh`
“It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
i've finally joined station; i was afraid i wouldn't have anything else to say. i think, instead what i'd like to do to coincide with my cafe is post quotes that i particularly like here. i hope they make you smile, or think, or just pause for a moment. otherwise, i may post things that just seem to fit here that doesn't elsewhere.
thank you for indulging me.