Everything Is More Beautiful Because We Are Doomed. You Will Never Be Lovelier Than You Are Now. We Will

Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again

HOMER, THE ILIAD.

‘Maturity,’ Bokonon tells us, 'is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.’

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via dukeofbookingham)

“And now, dear reader, the story is over. It is time for you to cross the bridge once more and return to the world you came from. This river, which is and is not the Thames, must continue flowing without you. You have haunted here long enough, and besides, you surely have rivers of your own to attend to?”

-Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

— Nail Gaiman (b. 10 November 1960)

“She did not care for children’s books in which the children grew up, as what “growing up” entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.”

— Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

Margot was a handsome woman in her late fifties. She could lift barrels without help and had legs so sturdy she never felt the need to sit down. It was rumoured she even slept on her feet, but she had given birth to thirteen children, so clearly she must have lain down sometimes.

Once Upon a River; Diane Setterfield