"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
via heartmindspirit)
"This is your life, your work, your family, your friends. All of these things are like plates of food in front of you, and you’re getting so caught up in what’s next, your food is getting cold. I say, eat it all up! It will sustain you.’"
Eve Ensler
"My parents valued education, but when they saw the competitive and self-flagellating monster I was becoming, they adopted a mid-course correction. ‘Take the C and live forever’ became my father’s refrain. Real life, as it turns out, is about messiness and, yes, failure."
Julie Bowen
"So you know how sometimes the simplest words formed into the simplest sentences to communicate the simplest thoughts somehow reach out and knock at your rib cage and you kind of have to catch your breath for a moment because it’s spectacular how honestly truths can be told?"
Everything Brighter
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: “I’ll go take a hot bath.”
I meditate in the bath. The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.
I remember the ceilings over every bathtub I’ve stretched out in. I remember the texture of the ceilings and the cracks and the colours and the damp spots and the light fixtures. I remember the tubs, too: the antique griffin-legged tubs, and the modern coffin-shaped tubs, and the fancy pink marble tubs overlooking indoor lily ponds, and I remember the shapes and sizes of the water taps and the different sorts of soap-holders.
I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.
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The Bell Jar
"There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again."
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