Quotes – Page 28 – Amethyst’s Archive

To live is to be courageous, to believe in yourself is bold. Richard Adams, Watership Down (via wordsnquotes) Source: wordsnquotes.com

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My darling girl, when are you going to understand that being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage. Aunt Frances Owens, Practical Magic (movie) Source: cunningcelt

I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they’ve been through. Unknown (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y) Source: lifeisthefight

All right,” said Tiffany reluctantly, “but you told Mr. Umbril the shoemaker that his chest pains will clear up if he walks to the waterfall at Tumble Crag every day for a month and throws three shiny pebbles into the pool for the water sprites! That’s not doctoring!” “No, but he thinks it is. TheContinue reading

Granny breathed out, slowly. ‘Come and sit where I can see you. That’s good manners. And let me tell you right now that I ain’t at all afraid of you.’ The tall, black-robed figure walked across the floor and sat down on a handy barrel, leaning its scythe against the wall. Then it pushed back itsContinue reading

…and I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. Emily Dickinson, The Letters of Emily Dickinson (via herbalmeditations) Source: wordsnquotes.com

wrathofgnon: You look at trees and called them “trees,” and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a “star,” and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, “tree,” “star,” were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very differentContinue reading

She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense,… of being out, out, far out to sea and alone. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via etrezomp-ni-kelted) Source: wavingtovirginia

You will always be a monster – there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you. Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure. (via empiregrotesk)