I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

— Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (via weltenwellen)

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sallyjaygorce:

She was dreadfully romantic. She read too many novels and carried her ideal world wherever she went.

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor’s Wife (1864)