"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
"The sun never truly sets, it only goes on to light up new horizons."
Read it twice. I love this cover. I love Holden and Phoebe.
"Your solitude will be a support and a home for you."
— Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters To A Young Poet (via
underfundig)
"To be misunderstood is the shy man’s fate on every occasion."
— Jerome K. Jerome,
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (via
underfundig)
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."