1400th.

"When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous." - Ernest Hemingway


Photo is "Evolve Outside" - from Saintiscariot.

1399th.

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S. Lewis


Photo is "Russian Literature" - from archanN.

1398th.

"Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; thing they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released." - Natalie Goldberg


Photo is "Obsession" - from Miss--Dee.

1397th.

"I have never understood people who don't have bookshelves." - George Plimpton


Photo is "Bookshelves" - from morba.

1396th.

"She's like smoke: you think you're seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her, there's nothing there." - Ryu Murakami


Photo is "Smoke" - from boing-boing.

1395th.

"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe and not what others believe." - Barbara De Angelis


Photo is "Human Integrity" - from davespertine.

1394th.

"You're beautiful and sad. Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." - Maggie Stiefvater


Photo is "Sad Eyes" - from paintedmonke.

1393rd.

"What's more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp and a book, listening to the wind beating against the windows? I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times. The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breathe with them." - Gustave Flaubert


Photo is "Reading" - from ravenngo.

1392nd.

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace." - Kate Chopin


Photo is "Sea" - from TheRedGirl.

1391st.

"I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong." - Jane Austen


Photo is "Rooted in Attachments" - from dzaet.