“Do You Remember When We First Met? I Thought I Had Wandered Into A Dream.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[text ID:   Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically- only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway, it can even be very brief, briefer than today's letters, just 2 lines, just one, just one word, but if I had to go without them I would suffer terribly.]

unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven't seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind

— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; "The Old Man and the Sea,"

“You came into my life—not as one comes to visit (you know, not ‘taking one’s hat off’) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps. Fate wanted to correct its mistake. Fate wanted to correct its mistake—as if it has asked my forgiveness for all its previous deceptions.”

— “Letters to Véra” Vladimir Nabokov. 1923. (via themovinglip)

do you ever talk to someone and it’s just so effortless and safe from the very beginning??? feeling like you could never run out of things to talk about with them but also just enjoy their presence

For you and your internet friends! 💙

Feel free to send these to them but please do not repost

Isengrim

i never aimed to give you a talisman!! i had something to say to you!!!!!!!!