“the unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die, but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”
-chuck palahniuk
"in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different"
-coca chanel
"fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." - g. k. chesterton
“you must be strong now. you must never give up. and when people make you cry and you are afraid of the dark, don't forget the light is always there.”
"do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. no, read in order to live."
— gustave flaubert