imaginaryapart: “What is God to me but an open-mouthed stranger?” — Erika L. Sánchez, from “Lessons on Expulsion,” Lessons on Expulsion (via lifeinpoetry)

metaphorformetaphor: “Is there not a dream, a breath of air, a gleam of light that belongs to you?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio, from War (Vintage Classics, 2008; first published 1970)

adrasteiax: “We are a temple that we have built on the foundations of our myths, with our prayers as bricks and our deities as mortar. We are centuries old and you would see it all come crumbling to dust?” — For the Forgotten Mythologies – a. davida jane (via wefragilehumans)

purplebuddhaquotes: “I wasn’t much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.” — Charles Bukowski

I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something. Ernest Hemingway (via purplebuddhaquotes)