Dominic

Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the same reasons, and too bad those emotions didn’t move simultaneously. But each act of madness moved at its own pace, one not dependent on the pace of anyone else. It wasn’t like tandem skydiving, where you were connected as you fell, where you were forced to fall at the same rate and use the same parachute. Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

- Eric Jerome Dickey (the novel Pleasure)

(Source: quote-book)

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: middlenameconfused)

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

- Maurice Switzer (via kari-shma)

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

- Mark Twain (via blua)

(Source: quote-book)