In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.
— Don Draper (via amputance)
(Source: e-d-w, via littlemermaidluna)
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
— Oscar Wilde (via 13thmoon)
(Source: janale, via boysgonewilde)
Summer is over and
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.
—
Robert Hass, “Basho: A Departure”
(via the-final-sentence)
(Source: gammasandgerunds, via the-final-sentence)
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
