“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.”
— Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer
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“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing (via books-n-quotes)
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
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…Things I hold most dear: music, nature, poetry, solitude.
Marina Tsvetayeva in a letter to Boris Pasternak, from Letters: Summer 1926 - Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Rainer Maria Rilke (New York Review Books, 2001)
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
“Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.”
— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing