« She could not find any pure new words which had never been ruffled and creased and had the starch taken out of them by others. »
- Virginia Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction Of Virginia Woolf (via petrichour)
(Source: fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
« That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing. Whether they came at him with tenderness or subterfuge or knives. »
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via petrichour)
(Source: lifeinpoetry)
مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْ
فيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَاموما أجمل أنْ تضحك
فيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك البكـاءْHow beautiful is it to stay silent
When someone expects you to be enraged from them.
And how beautiful it is to laugh
When someone thinks you are going to shed tears.
(Source: desertwinds)
