You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.  Louisa May Alcott (via infiniteroses)

Only the foolish believe that suffering is just wages for being different. Only the insane equate pain with success. Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as a measure of worth. Only a few find the way; some don’t recognize it when they do, some… don’t ever want to. Cheshire Cat, American McGee’s Alice …

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your …

But there’s so much more that comes to mind than just words. There are images, scenes, longstanding battles. Thunderous, blissful, heart-weakening trots of handsome horses as the earth shatters beneath their hooves. I watch with furrowed brow in awe and disgust as the battles unfold. The clang of swords sheathes against themselves as hearty men …