March 2011
372 posts
“Sometimes, I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow; there’s nothing behind my...”
– Sylvia Plath (via catastrophe-theory)
February 2011
88 posts
“You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via ish07)
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...”
– Lewis Carroll (via rosettes)
“You see, there’s responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up...”
– East Of Eden (via liketheopensea)
“Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a...”
– James T. McCay (via thewrittenrealm)
“If a young woman once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any...”
– Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (via revedetoi)
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via fi0naway)
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born...”
– Sylvia Plath, “Mad Girl’s Love Song” (via liquidnight)
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“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world...”
– John Green (via itookadeepbreath)
“There’s nothing worse than loving someone who’s never going to stop...”
– House (via allumer)
“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared...”
– The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
thousandpetallotus:
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
“When you realize you’re not a child is when you realize that you have to protect...”
– Josh Ritter (via pdvmorris)
“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it’s presence.”
– Water for Elephants (via waterinmyveins)
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“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via liquidnight)
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“I want to be like water, I want to slip through fingers but hold up a ship.”
– Michelle Williams (via weepingclouds)
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via kewt)
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“Time the devourer of all things.”
– Ovid, Metamorphoses
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated...”
– J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I’d...”
– Groucho Marx
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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican...”
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“we do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– e.e. cummings (via englishpearl)
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“According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with four arms,...”
– Plato (via dizzyspells-)
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“How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought.”
– Sylvia Plath (via fi0naway)
“We need others. We need others to love and we need others to be loved by them....”
– Leo F. Buscaglia (via younggthingg)
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“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via liquidnight)
“He was a writer trying not to act like a writer. He was a man possessed. He...”
– E.B. White on Henry David Thoreau (via incandenza)
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“Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That...”
– Dennis Lehane, The Given Day (via quotewhore)
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“Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who...”
– Jules Feiffer (via quote-book)
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“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an...”
– Vladimir Nabokov thechocolatebrigade (via thelobotomy)
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“Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society’s whim...”
– John J. Miller
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“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t...”
– Malcolm X
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“He told her: he fell from the sky and lived. She took a deep breath and believed...”
– Salman Rushdie
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“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
– Voltaire
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“Since the disintegration of her parent’s marriage she’d only love two things....”
– 500 Days of Summer (via fi0naway)
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can...”
– Salman Rushdie
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts...”
– Plato (via aabromelins)
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“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil,...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel
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“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up....”
– Samuel Johson (via laissezfaire-)
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“I don’t know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark...”
– Robert Brault
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“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history,...”
– Salman Rushdie
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“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A...”
– Emily Brontë (via forbiddenalleys)
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via coloursplashedsoul) 