"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (via ventriloquistic)
"Being awake during these long, hidden hours is like taking the subway during the middle of the day or walking around Manhattan after a blizzard. All is private, silent, and still; for once the world is polite, and for once it belongs to you." — Elizabeth Gumport, “The World Invented” (via leopoldgursky)