Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.
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| — | Frederick Buechner (via quotenotebooks) |
‘Book Worm Dictionary’ Necklace
Taken from our ‘Ode to the English’ collection, this piece is fully functioning and bound in solid brass, and despite its content, will leave onlookers speechless. This statement necklace is inspired by John Waters: ‘We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f**k them’.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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| — | C.S Lewis (Irish, 1898-1963) (St. Augustine) |
“You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn’t need to be a voice. It’s about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.”
—Fleur Adcock, from an interview by Sally Vincent published in The Guardian, Sat 29 Jul 2000
We look at each other; see that we do not know each other, stare, and go off. Such looks are lashes. I feel the whole cruelty and indifference of the world in them.
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| — | Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via wingsforlashes) |
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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| — | Ralph Waldo Emerson (via creatingaquietmind) |
