Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door. Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World   (via peachbabes)

So finally, it occurs to me that the human heart is what lasts and what always did and always will last; and maybe the human heart is the proper field of study and the only undeniable concern of writers. It’s all there, after all: it isn’t because a thing happened in 1841 or 1941 or …