October 2011
16 posts
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight...
– Gabriel García Márquez (via danseurs)
A girl calls and asks, “Does it hurt very much to die?”
“Well, sweetheart,” I...
– Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)
But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want...
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via likebookends)
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
– Wilde (via chairthoughts)
There are two kinds of love…in the safe kind you look for someone who’s exactly...
– Jodi Picoult (via skeletales)
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter...
– Bob Moorehead (via aeloquence)
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...
– Jack Kerouac (via not-badforagirl)
After lunch, I lean over the toilet in the bathroom stall and throw up. I wipe...
– Marya Hornbacher, “Madness: A Bipolar Life” (via joliemots)
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via aeloquence)
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via spiritd3sire)
I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...
– Augusten Burroughs (via aeloquence)
Funny how people don’t really see each other. Men and women. They invent each...
– Andrew Klavan (via atomos)
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of...
– Rachel Caron (via atomos)
I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed...
– Sylvia Plath (via aeloquence)
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window...
– Franz Kafka (via bookmania)
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You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry...
– Osho (via bearbearpdx)