"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via bookmania)
Children led astray by the Bronx Traveling Library, Westchester Square branch, New York. (via Robert Barone)
meet Baby Fox, our little foster puppy! (Taken with instagram)
"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via bookmania)
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via bookmania)
"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder."
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 (via bookmania)
