“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”— Marie Lu, Champion
(via books-n-quotes)
“What do they know of darkness? What do they know of the choking blackness of the void that swallows you whole? What do they know of isolation, desperation, loneliness? They know nothing. Nothing at all.”
"We all lived through who we were to become who we are.”
“How glad I am that you exist.”— Vita Sackville-West; Letters to Virginia Woolf
"The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men. But I am a part of this universe, and the most courageous thing to do is to accept it and the tragedy at the same time.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959
(Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008;
first published 1989)
Ceremonial Turkish dagger decorated with gilt silver, ebony, rubies, emeralds, and turquoise, late 16th century.
from The Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
