#rave

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#calvino #if #italo #night #on

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#grave #halfway #to #cat

Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in her perfectly arranged hair. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #foot #grave #one #cat

He gave the body a final kick and then turned to face me. “You and I need to talk, Kitten.” “Now?” I asked in disbelief, gesturing to the dead vampire near his feet. “It’s not like he’s going anywhere, so yeah. Now. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #foot #grave #one #cat

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested. ↗

— Donald Richie

#japan #travel #japan

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#grief

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#cowardice #dauntless #four #tris #cowardice

The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating. ↗

— Naomi Shihab Nye

#travel #curiosity

You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#destined #early #grave #mencheres #paris

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. ↗

— Bill Murray

#international-travel #travel #world-travel #common-sense