What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence — or perhaps it is we who change in theirs — and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.
(via bookmania)
Is it called naïveté when you’re naïve on purpose?
James Dean
Believing in even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing.
Medina - 12 Dage
(Source: teachingliteracy)
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía - Mediterranean Sundance Rio Ancho
(Source: youtube.com)
Carl Parow
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.
The best thing about her is that after a crash landing she picks herself up, brushes herself down and is immediately ready for the next kamikaze mission.
