“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
“Do you know what really turns me on? What I find incredibly sexy? Kindness.”
“…wild things in the darkness of her eyes.”
— Ralph Hodgson, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913); “The Gypsy Girl,”
“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”
— Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
(via books-n-quotes)
“Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should…”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“I am half a bird half a girl. You are half of me and I am all for you.”
— Florence Welch, from “Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry,” published c. 2018
“I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens. I want to be breathless and weak, crumpled by the entrance of another person inside my soul.”
— Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
i think the hardest day for a girl is the first day of period
