ashley. twenty-one. recent college graduate. aspiring writer with a serious pop culture obsession. lost inside a mitten. learning to take chances.


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24th February 2012

Quote reblogged from Upon Swallows with 299 notes

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

Tagged: Louise ErdrichNot a huge fan of this book but there were parts I really loved

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