May 2013
3 posts
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver (via awelltraveledwoman)
“And all they knew of hate was that it couldn’t beat the love out of me.”
– Andrea Gibson (via highesthill)
“I’m only quiet because I’m worried that if you push me too far, one day I will...”
– I Wrote This For You (via creatingaquietmind)
April 2013
32 posts
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (via magrittesque)
“Never complain, never explain.”
– Kate Moss (via monsieurwintour)
“Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being...”
– Louise Flory (via lunaoki)
“Being kind isn’t always easy. Or convenient. But it has the potential to change...”
– Cap Watkins (via nevver)
“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine.”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via obdormio)
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find...”
– Johanna de Silentio (via wendesgray)
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the...”
– Papa Hemingway (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise...”
– Anne Frank (via eloquence)
“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via blua)
“How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time....”
– Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere (via creatingaquietmind)
“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is...”
– F. Butler (via prettypaperquotes)
“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know...”
– Charles Bukowski, “a song with no end,” adapted (via violentwavesofemotion)
“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world....”
– L.R.Knost (via wendesgray)
“And I know that this life is the only real form of happiness,
But sometimes in...”
– John Koethe, from “In the Park” (via creatingaquietmind)
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via sheandherdarkness)
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via aprettypreppylife)
“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best take it out and...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via thesepageshere)
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
– Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (via thesepageshere)
“Get out of bed, make a hot drink and go outside. You owe yourself that much....”
– a greater reality (via sloppyfirsts)
“My dear,
I don’t know what to do today, help me decide.
Should I cut myself...”
– Albert Camus (via pink-bullets)
“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do...”
– David Foster Wallace (via cxlts)
“A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane, and ill-advised,...”
– Louis C.K. (via worldfamousprofessor)
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start...”
– Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s answer to the question “Any advice to a young person who wants to get into this field?”, from his spectacular reddit IAmA (via sloppyfirsts)
“At the cost of your happiness, others will suffer pain. You should be careful of...”
– 時をかける少女 (The Girl who Leapt Through Time)
“People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all.”
– Maggie Smith (via visualcomplex)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via abowloforanges)
fromwhichyouraccentcomes:
If the sun were to explode, you wouldn’t even know about it for eight minutes
And nothing in the world gives me a heavier heart than knowing I wouldn’t be able to reach you before the world went dark.
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
– Frederick Buechner (via seabois)
“If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I...”
– Vargus, Archie’s Final Project (via aeslehchelsea)
“A bad trip? This whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. But...”
– Charles Bukowski (via violentcraving)
“The world is full of people who would punish you for taking the path they dared...”
– Michael Boiano (via liketheopensea)
March 2013
9 posts
“…Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always...”
– Chinua Achebe (via thatkindofwoman)
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...”
– Octavia Butler (via thatkindofwoman)
“It’s like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to...”
– John Green (via epicjohngreenquotes)
“What if I told you 10 years from now your life would be exactly the same. Doubt...”
– Karen Salmansohn (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I intend to have footloose escapades as long as frontiers stay open.”
– Truman Capote (via theparisreview)
“One can’t build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.”
– Anne Sexton (via theparisreview)
“Set your course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.”
– Omar Bradley (via smelltheseafeelthesky)
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via liketheopensea)
“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short,
with as much...”
– Audre Lorde (via blua)
“…everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via liquidnight)
February 2013
56 posts
“You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4 am. The heavier the...”
– Jeff Stuckel (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life...”
– Advice on writing and life from Ann Patchett (via explore-blog)
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
– Victor Hugo, born February 26th, 1802 (via thepenguinpress)
“It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see...”
– (via underage-thinking)
“When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me lying...”
– ~ Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild. (via shaefierce) 